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Bhagavad Gita · 16.6 · Yoga through Discerning the Divine and Demoniac Natures·6 of 24

द्वौ भूतसर्गौ लोकेऽस्मिन् दैव आसुर एव चदैवो विस्तरशः प्रोक्त आसुरं पार्थ मे श्रृणु

dvau bhūta-sargau loke ’smin daiva āsura eva cha

daivo vistaraśhaḥ prokta āsuraṁ pārtha me śhṛiṇu

Sanskrit recitation

When ego turns cruel · 16.6–16.16 · Teaching

Translation

There are two types of beings in this world: the divine and the demoniacal. The divine has been described at length; hear from Me, O Arjuna, about the demoniacal.

Meaning

The two divisions of created beings, the one divine and the other satanic, carry on their respective activities in accordance with their natural tendencies or traits.In the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad also you will find Verily there are two classes of the Creators creatures -- gods and demons (I.3.1).Bhutasargau Creations of beings, types or classes of creatues. Creation here means what is created. The men who are created with the two kinds of nature, the divine and the demonical, are here mentioned as the two creations. Every man in this world comes under the one or the other of the two creations, the divine and the demoniacal.Lord Krishna says to Arjuna, I will now describe to thee the characteristics of those men who are endowed with the devilish alities. If you have an understanding of the demoniacal alities, you will avoid them. The demoniacal nature is described in detail to the very end of this discourse.There is some reference in chapter IX, verses 9, 11 and 12, to the demoniacal nature but as the description is incomplete it is completed in this discourse.The divine nature has been declared in detail by the blessed Lord in the previous chapters -- the state of a Sthitaprajna in chapter II, the state of a Bhagavata in chapter XII and the state of a Trigunatita in chapter XIV and in the first three verses of this discourse.

After Swami Sivananda

When ego turns cruel· 16.6–16.16

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

Word-by-word
me
from me
cha
and
eva
certainly
dvau
two
loke
in the world
asmin
this
pārtha
Arjun, the son of Pritha
āsuram
the demoniac
daivaḥ
the divine
proktaḥ
said
āsuraḥ
demoniac
śhṛiṇu
hear
bhūta-sargau
of created living beings
vistaraśhaḥ
at great length

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