Daivasura Sampad Vibhaga Yoga

Krishna said: Fearlessness, purity of mind, steadiness in knowledge and yoga, charity, self-restraint, sacrifice, study of scripture, austerity, and uprightness.

Non-violence, truthfulness, absence of anger, renunciation, tranquility, absence of slander, compassion toward beings, freedom from greed, gentleness, modesty, freedom from restlessness.

Courage, forgiveness, steadiness, purity, freedom from malice, and absence of excessive pride: these belong to one born for the divine inheritance, O Arjuna.

Hypocrisy, arrogance, pride, anger, harshness, and ignorance belong to one born for the demonic inheritance, O Arjuna.

The divine inheritance leads to liberation. The demonic is held to lead to bondage. Do not grieve, O Arjuna. You were born for the divine inheritance.

There are two kinds of beings in this world: the divine and the demonic. The divine has been described at length. Hear from me about the demonic, O Arjuna.

Demonic people do not know what to do and what not to do. Neither purity nor good conduct nor truth is found in them.

They say the world has no truth, no foundation, no God. It arose from nothing but the union of desire. What else could it be?

Holding to this view, these people of corrupt selves and dull minds, given to violent actions and harmful to the world, rise up only to cause destruction.

Giving themselves to insatiable desire, filled with hypocrisy, arrogance, and conceit, taking up wrong beliefs out of delusion, they act with impure intentions.

Bound by cares without number, which end only at death, convinced that the enjoyment of desires is the highest aim, sure that this is all there is,

Held fast by hundreds of chains of hope, driven entirely by desire and anger, they seek to hoard wealth by unjust means to satisfy their cravings.

They think: 'This is what I have gained today. I will get that wish next. This wealth is mine and more will come to me.'

'That enemy has been destroyed by me. I will destroy others too. I am the lord, I am the enjoyer, I am powerful, I am successful, I am happy.'

'I am wealthy, I am well-born. Who else is there like me? I will perform sacrifices, I will give gifts, I will enjoy myself.' They are deluded by ignorance.

Tossed about by many thoughts, caught in the net of delusion, and deeply attached to the enjoyment of desires, they fall into a foul hell.

Self-conceited, stubborn, drunk with wealth and pride, they perform sacrifices in name only, with ostentation, ignoring proper rites.

Relying on ego, brute force, arrogance, desire, and anger, they hate me in their own bodies and in the bodies of others, full of spite.

I cast those hateful, cruel, and evil people, the lowest of human beings, into demonic wombs again and again in the cycle of rebirth.

Born into demonic wombs birth after birth, O Arjuna, they never reach me. They sink to a still lower state.

Desire, anger, and greed: these are the three gates of hell that destroy the self. Therefore one should abandon all three.

O Arjuna, the person who is free from these three gateways to darkness strives for the good of the self and thereby reaches the highest goal.

One who sets aside the authority of scripture and acts on the impulse of desire does not attain fulfillment, does not attain happiness, and does not attain the highest goal.

Therefore let scripture be your guide in deciding what should be done and what should not be done. Knowing what the scriptural injunctions prescribe, you should perform your duty here.