If chastisement did not uphold and protect, no one would observe the duties of his own order as sanctioned (in the scriptures), and no one would have succeeded in gaining knowledge.
चरेयुर्नाश्रमे धर्म यथोक्तं विधिमाश्रिताः। न विद्यां प्राप्नुयात् कश्चिद् यदि दण्डो न पालयेत्।।४०