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Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 16
Daivasura Sampad Vibhaga Yoga
The Divine & Demonic Natures
Two inheritances available to every human: the divine endowment that liberates, and the demonic endowment that binds. The chapter closes with the three gates of hell and scripture as the lamp for the road.
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Gita 16.1-3abhayaṃ sattvasaṃśuddhirjñānayogavyavasthitiḥ | dānaṃ damaśca yajñaśca svādhyāya…The Blessed Lord said: Fearlessness, purity of heart, steadfastness in knowledge and yoga; charity, self-restraint, sacr…Gita 16.4dambho darpo'bhimānaśca krodhaḥ pāruṣyameva ca | ajñānaṃ cābhijātasya pārtha sam…Hypocrisy, arrogance, conceit, anger, harshness, and ignorance, these belong to one born to the demonic endowment, O Par…Gita 16.5daivī sampadvimokṣāya nibandhāyāsurī matā | mā śucaḥ sampadaṃ daivīmabhijāto'si …The divine endowment is deemed to lead to liberation, the demonic to bondage. Grieve not, O Pandava, you are born to the…Gita 16.6dvau bhūtasargau loke'smindaiva āsura eva ca | daivo vistaraśaḥ prokta āsuraṃ pā…There are two orders of created beings in this world, the divine and the demonic. The divine has been described at lengt…Gita 16.7-8pravṛttiṃ ca nivṛttiṃ ca janā na vidurāsurāḥ | na śaucaṃ nāpi cācāro na satyaṃ t…The demonic know neither right action nor right abstention; neither purity nor good conduct nor truth is found in them. …Gita 16.9-10etāṃ dṛṣṭimavaṣṭabhya naṣṭātmāno'lpabuddhayaḥ | prabhavantyugrakarmāṇaḥ kṣayāya …Holding fast to this view, these ruined souls of small understanding and cruel deeds rise as enemies of the world for it…Gita 16.11-12cintāmaparimeyāṃ ca pralayāntāmupāśritāḥ | kāmopabhogaparamā etāvaditi niścitāḥ …Beset with immeasurable cares ending only with death, holding gratification of desire as the highest aim, convinced that…Gita 16.13-16idamadya mayā labdhamimaṃ prāpsye manoratham | idamastīdamapi me bhaviṣyati puna…‘This I have gained today; this desire I shall obtain; this is mine, and this wealth too shall be mine. That enemy I hav…Gita 16.17-18ātmasambhāvitāḥ stabdhā dhanamānamadānvitāḥ | yajante nāmayajñaiste dambhenāvidh…Self-conceited, stubborn, filled with the pride and intoxication of wealth, they perform sacrifices in name only, with h…Gita 16.19-20tānahaṃ dviṣataḥ krūrānsaṃsāreṣu narādhamān | kṣipāmyajasramaśubhānāsurīṣveva yo…These cruel haters, worst of men, I hurl perpetually into demonic wombs alone in the cycles of birth. Entering demonic w…Gita 16.21trividhaṃ narakasyedaṃ dvāraṃ nāśanamātmanaḥ | kāmaḥ krodhastathā lobhastasmādet…Threefold is the gate of this hell, destructive of the self, desire, anger, and greed; therefore one should abandon thes…Gita 16.22etairvimuktaḥ kaunteya tamodvāraistribhirnaraḥ | ācaratyātmanaḥ śreyastato yāti …The person released from these three gates of darkness, O son of Kunti, practises what is good for the self and thus rea…Gita 16.23yaḥ śāstravidhimutsṛjya vartate kāmakārataḥ | na sa siddhimavāpnoti na sukhaṃ na…One who, casting aside the ordinances of scripture, acts under the impulse of desire, attains neither perfection nor hap…Gita 16.24tasmācchāstraṃ pramāṇaṃ te kāryākāryavyavasthitau | jñātvā śāstravidhānoktaṃ kar…Therefore let scripture be your authority in determining what should be done and what should not be done; knowing what i…
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1Arjuna Vishada YogaThe Yoga of Arjuna's Despair2Sankhya YogaThe Yoga of Knowledge3Karma YogaThe Yoga of Action4Jnana Karma Sanyasa YogaKnowledge & Renunciation of Action5Karma Sanyasa YogaThe Yoga of Renunciation6Dhyana YogaThe Yoga of Meditation7Jnana Vijnana YogaKnowledge of the Absolute8Akshara Brahma YogaThe Imperishable Absolute9Raja Vidya Raja Guhya YogaThe Royal Knowledge & Royal Secret10Vibhuti YogaThe Yoga of Divine Glories11Vishvarupa Darshana YogaThe Vision of the Universal Form12Bhakti YogaThe Yoga of Devotion13Kshetra Kshetrajna Vibhaga YogaThe Field & the Knower of the Field14Gunatraya Vibhaga YogaThe Three Gunas15Purushottama YogaThe Supreme Person16Daivasura Sampad Vibhaga YogaThe Divine & Demonic Natures17Shraddhatraya Vibhaga YogaThe Three Kinds of Faith18Moksha Sanyasa YogaLiberation through Renunciation