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Demoniac birth

2 verses from the Bhagavad Gita on demoniac birth. Explore teachings across 1 chapter.

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Chapter 16 • Verse 19 →The Yoga of the Divine and Demoniac Natures
Tan aham dvishatah kruran samsareshu naradhaman, kshipamy ajasram ashubhan asurishv eva yonishu

Those who are envious and mischievous — the lowest among mankind — I perpetually cast into the ocean of material existence, into various demoniac species of life. Krishna declares that the demoniac who persist in hatred and cruelty are cast by divine law into ever-lower births that match the quality of their consciousness.

  • •Divine justice ensures that the persistently demoniac are born into forms matching their nature
  • •Envy and cruelty are the defining acts that invite the lowest of births
  • •The cycle of rebirth is shaped by the quality and direction of consciousness at death
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Chapter 16 • Verse 20 →The Yoga of the Divine and Demoniac Natures
Asurim yonim apanna mudha janmani janmani, mam aprapyaiva kaunteya tato yanty adhamam gatim

Taking birth again and again in demoniac species of life, such foolish souls can never approach Me, O son of Kunti, and they gradually sink to the most abominable type of existence. The demoniac trajectory is one of cumulative descent — each birth further from God and deeper into degradation — until the most abominable state is reached.

  • •Repeated demoniac births progressively distance the soul from God
  • •Without approaching the Supreme, the demoniac slide into ever more degraded forms
  • •The path of the demoniac leads ultimately to the most abominable conditions of existence
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