Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 1.98

1.98

- svapnaṃ tandrīṃ manyumaśanayāmakṣakāmyāṃ strīkāmyāmiti
ete ha vai pāpmānaḥ puruṣamasmim̐lloke sacante
ya etadagne tīrtvāsmim̐lloke sādhu cikīrṣāttattvamasmim̐lloke
dhīpsatādityagnimasmim̐lloke'dadhuḥ
vāyumantarikṣa ādityaṃ divi
ugradevo ha smāha rājanirnāhaṃ manuṣyāyārātīyāmi yānasmai trīndevānāṃ
śreṣṭhānarātīyato'śṛṇom
arātītamarātītaṃ hyeva tasmai yasmā etā devatā arātīyantīti
atho hāsmā etā devatā nārātīyanti ya evaṃ veda
atho ha tameva dhīpsanti ya evaṃ vidvāṃsaṃ dhīpsatīti
te devā abruvanyā evemā devatāśchandāṃsi puruṣe praviṣṭā
etābhirevāsurāndhūrvāmaiveti

—sleep, drowsiness, wrath, hunger, desire for dice, desire for women.
These evils indeed attend man in this world.
[The gods said:] 'Whoever, having crossed over this, shall desire to do good in this world, [him] do you seek to harm in this world!' Thus they placed fire in this world,
wind in the intermediate space, [and] the sun in heaven.
Ugradeva Rājanī indeed used to say: 'I do not bear malice toward a human being, whom I have heard of as having these three best among the gods bearing malice toward him.
For he against whom these deities bear malice is fully malice-stricken.'
And these deities do not bear malice toward him who knows thus.
And they seek to harm him who seeks to harm one who knows thus.
Those gods said: 'Whichever deities [and] meters have entered into man,
with these very ones let us injure the Asuras.'