If there were no chastisement in the world differentiating the good from the evil, the whole world would have been covered with sheer darkness and all things would have been unsettled.
अन्धं तम इवेदं स्यान्न प्राज्ञायत किंचना दण्डश्चेन्न भवेल्लोके विभजन साध्वसाधुनी॥