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Bhagavad Gita · 16.4 · Yoga through Discerning the Divine and Demoniac Natures·4 of 24

दम्भो दर्पोऽभिमानश्च क्रोधः पारुष्यमेव चअज्ञानं चाभिजातस्य पार्थ सम्पदमासुरीम्

dambho darpo ’bhimānaśh cha krodhaḥ pāruṣhyam eva

cha ajñānaṁ chābhijātasya pārtha sampadam āsurīm

Sanskrit recitation

Divine qualities to grow · 16.1–16.5 · Teaching

Translation

Hypocrisy, arrogance, and self-conceit, anger, harshness, and ignorance—these belong to one who is born for a demoniacal state, O Partha.

Meaning

Dambha Hypocrisy. To pretend to be what one is not, to pretend to be religious and pious. It consists of bragging of ones own greatness. Religious hypocrisy is the worst form of hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is a mixture of deceit and falsehood. Those who boast about their own merits will get demerit only.Darpa Arrogance. Pride of learning, wealth, high connection, etc. An arrogant man cannot endure to see his fellowmen happy. He is more and more enraged at the fortune of his fellowmen in the matter of learning, happiness and prosperity.Parushyam (in speech) To speak of the blind as having lotuslike eyes, of the ugly as beautiful, of a man of low birth as one of high birth and so on, usually with an ulterior, selfish or evil motive.Ajnanam Ignorance, misconception of ones duties. An ignorant man is blind as to what should be done and what should not be done. There is absence of discrimination. Just as a child will put anything it gets in its hands into its mouth, whether it is clean or dirty, so also is the condition of the ignorant man who is not able to discriminate between the Real and the unreal, the good and the evil, virtue and vice. He is on the path of destruction. He does not know the road that leads to Moskha or liberation. He is drowned in the ocean of this worldly existence.These are the six demonical alities. These evil alities constitute the satanic or demonical wealth

After Swami Sivananda

Divine qualities to grow· 16.1–16.5

Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.

Word-by-word
cha
and
eva
certainly
pārtha
Arjun, the son of Pritha
darpaḥ
arrogance
sampadam
qualities
āsurīm
demoniac
ajñānam
ignorance
dambhaḥ
hypocrisy
krodhaḥ
anger
abhijātasya
of those who possess
abhimānaḥ
conceit
pāruṣhyam
harshness

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