Chapter 16
Daivasura Sampad Vibhaga Yoga
The Divine and Demonic Natures
- Verse 16.1Freedom from fear, purity of heart, perseverance in (pursuit of) knowledge and abstraction of mind, gifts,…
- Verse 16.2Freedom from fear, purity of heart, perseverance in (pursuit of) knowledge and abstraction of mind, gifts,…
- Verse 16.3Freedom from fear, purity of heart, perseverance in (pursuit of) knowledge and abstraction of mind, gifts,…
- Verse 16.4Ostentatiousness, pride, vanity, anger, and also harshness and ignorance (are) his, O son of Prithâ! who is born to…
- Verse 16.5Godlike endowments are deemed to be (means) for final emancipation, demoniac for bondage. Grieve not, O descendant of…
- Verse 16.6(There are) two classes of created beings in this world, the godlike and the demoniac; the godlike (class) has been…
- Verse 16.7Demoniac persons know not action or inaction, neither purity nor yet (correct) conduct nor veracity are in them.
- Verse 16.8They say the universe is devoid of truth, devoid of fixed principle, and devoid of a ruler, produced by union (of male…
- Verse 16.9Holding this view, (these) enemies of the world, of ruined selfs, of little knowledge, and of ferocious actions, are…
- Verse 16.10Entertaining insatiable desire, full of vanity, ostentatiousness, and frenzy, they adopt false notions through…
- Verse 16.11Indulging in boundless thoughts ending with death, given up to the enjoyment of objects of desire, being resolved that…
- Verse 16.12bound down by nets of hopes in hundreds, given up to anger and desire, they wish to obtain heaps of wealth unfairly…
- Verse 16.13'This have I obtained to-day; this wish I will obtain; this wealth is mine; and this also shall be mine;
- Verse 16.14this foe I have killed; others too I will destroy; I am lord, I am the enjoyer, I am perfect, strong, happy;
- Verse 16.15I have wealth; I am of noble birth; who else is like me? I will sacrifice; I will make gifts; I will rejoice.' Thus…
- Verse 16.16tossed about by numerous thoughts, surrounded by the net of delusion, and attached to the enjoyment of objects of…
- Verse 16.17Honoured (only) by themselves, void of humility, and full of the pride and frenzy of wealth, these calumniators (of…
- Verse 16.18indulging (their) vanity, brute force, arrogance, lust, and anger; and hating me in their own bodies and in those of…
- Verse 16.19These enemies, ferocious, meanest of men, and unholy, I continually hurl down, to these worlds, only into demoniac…
- Verse 16.20Coming into demoniac wombs, deluded in every birth, they go down to the vilest state, O son of Kuntî! without ever…
- Verse 16.21Threefold is this way, to hell,--ruinous to the self,--lust, anger, and likewise avarice; therefore one should abandon…
- Verse 16.22Released from these three ways to darkness, O son of Kuntî! a man works out his own welfare, and then proceeds to the…
- Verse 16.23He who abandoning scripture ordinances, acts under the impulse of desire, does not attain perfection, nor happiness,…
- Verse 16.24Therefore in discriminating between what should be done and what should not be done, your authority (must be)…