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Chapter-16
Daivasur-Sampdvibhag Yog
1-3: The Supreme Personality of
Godhead said: Fearlessness; purification of one’s
existence; cultivation of spiritual knowledge; charity;
self-control; performance of sacrifice; study of Vedas;
austerity; simplicity; nonviolence; truthfulness;
freedom from anger; renunciation; tranquillity; aversion
to faultfinding; compassion for all living entities;
freedom from covetousness; gentleness; modesty; steady
determination; vigor; forgiveness; fortitude;
cleanliness; and freedom from envy and from the passion
for honor-these transcendental qualities, O son of
Bharata, belong to godly men endowed with divine nature.
4: Pride, arrogance, conceit, anger, harshness and
ignorance-these qualities belong to those of demoniac
nature, O son of Prtha.
5: The transcendental qualities are conducive to
liberation, whereas the demoniac qualities make for
bondage. Do not worry, O son of Pandu, for you are born
with the divine qualities.
6: O son of Prtha, in this world there are two
kinds of created beings. One is called divine and the
other demoniac. I have already explained to you at
length the divine qualities. Now hear from Me of the
demoniac.
7: Those who are demoniac do not know what is to be
done and what is not to be done. Neither cleanliness nor
proper behavior nor truth is found in them.
8: They say that this world is unreal, with no
foundation, no God in control. They say it is produced
of sex desire and has no cause other than lust.
9: Following such conclusions, the demoniac, who
are lost to themselves and who have no intelligence,
engage in unbeneficial, horrible works meant to destroy
the world.
10: Taking shelter of insatiable lust and absorbed
in the conceit of pride and false prestige, the
demoniac, thus illusioned, are always sworn to unclean
work, attracted by the impermanent.
11-12: They believe that to gratify the senses is
the prime necessity of human civilization. Thus until
the end of life their anxiety is immeasurable. Bound by
a network of hundreds of thousands of desires and
absorbed in lust and anger, they secure money by illegal
means for sense gratification.
13-15: The demoniac person thinks: “So much wealth
do I have today, and I will gain more according to my
schemes. So much is mine now, and it will increase in
the future, more and more. He is my enemy, and I have
killed him, and my other enemies will be killed. I am
lord of everything. I am the enjoyer. I am perfect,
powerful and happy. I am the richest man, surrounded by
aristocratic relatives. There is none so powerful and
happy as I am. I shall perform sacrifices, I shall give
some charity, and thus I shall rejoice.” I shall give
some charity, and thus I shall rejoice.” In this way,
such persons are deluded by ignorance.
16: Thus perplexed by various anxieties and bound
by a network of illusions, they become too strongly
attached to sense enjoyment and fall down into hell.
17: Self-complacement and always impudent, deluded
by wealth and false prestige, they sometimes proudly
perform sacrifices in name only, without following any
rules or regulations.
18: Bewildered by false ego, strength, pride, lust
and anger, the demons become envious of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, who is situated in their own
bodies and in the bodies of others, and blaspheme
against the real religion.
19: Those who are envious and mischievous, who are
the lowest among men, I perpetually cast into the ocean
of material existence, into various demoniac species of
life.
20: Attaining repeated birth amongst the species of
demoniac life, O son of Kunti, such persons can never
approach Me. Gradually they sink down to the most
abominable type of existence.
21: There are three gates leading to this
hell-lust, anger and greed. Every sane man should give
these up, for they lead to the degradation of the soul.
22: The man who has escaped these three gates of
hell, O son of Kunti, performs acts conducive to
self-realization and thus gradually attains the supreme
destination.
23: He who discards scriptural injunctions and acts
according to his own whims attains neither perfections,
nor happiness, nor the supreme destination.
24: One should therefore understand what is duty
and what is not duty by the regulations of the
scriptures. Knowing such rules and regulations, one
should act so that he may gradually be elevated.
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