Giving themselves up to innumerable cares ending only
with death, they remain devoted to the enjoyment of sensuous pleasures and are
firm in their belief that this is the highest limit of joy. …………………. (11)
Held in bondage by hundred of ties of expectation and
wholly giving themselves up to lust and anger, they strive to amass by unfair
means hoards of money and other objects for the enjoyment of sensuous
pleasures. ………………. (12)
They say to themselves, "This much has been secured
by me today and now I shall realize this ambition. So much wealth is already
with me and yet again this shall be mine. … (13)
That enemy has been slain by me and I shall kill those
others too. I am the lord of all, the enjoyer of all power. I am endowed with
all occult powers, and am mighty and happy.
(14)
"I am wealthy and own a large family; who else is
equal to me> I will sacrifice to gods, will give alms, I will make
merry," Thus deluded by ignorance, enveloped in the mesh of delusion and
ignorance, enveloped in the mesh of delusion and addicted to the enjoyment of
sensuous pleasures, their mind bewildered by numerous thoughts, these men of
devilish disposition fall into the foulest hell. …………… (16-16)
Intoxicated by wealth and honor, those self-conceited and
haughty men perform sacrifices only in name for ostentation, without following
the sacred rituals. ……….. (17)
Given over to egotism, brute force, arrogance, lust and
anger etc., and calumniating others, they despise Me (the in dweller), dwelling
in their own bodies, as in those of others. .. (18)
Those hearts, sinful, cruel and vilest among men, I cast
again and again into demoniacal wombs in this world. …………… (19)
Failing to reach Me, Arjun, those stupid persons are born
life after life in demoniac womb, and then verily sink down to a still lower
plane. ….. (20)
Desire, anger and greed - these triple gates of hell,
bring about the downfall of the soul. Therefore, one should shun all these
three. ………………… (21)
freed from these three gates of hell, man works for his
own salvation and thereby attains the supreme goal, i.e., God. …………….. (22)
Discarding the injunctions of the scriptures, he who acts
in an arbitrary way according to his own sweet will, such a person neither
attains occult powers, nor the supreme goal, nor even happiness. …………….(23)
Therefore, the scripture alone is your guide in determining
what should be done and what should not be done. Knowing this, you ought to
perform only such action as is ordained by the scriptures. ……………… (24)
Thus, in the Upanishad sung by the Lord, the Science of
Brahma, the scripture of Yoga, the dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjun, ends
the sixteenth chapter entitled "The Yoga of Division between the Divine
and the Demoniacal Properties."
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