Sri Krishna is now explaining about the demonic qualities of beings in the
upcoming verses.
Verse 7
The demoniacal know not what to do and what to refrain from;
neither purity nor right conduct nor truth is found in them.
Neither do these people know what
is to be done, nor do they know what is not to be done. With their whim and
fancy, with the pressure of the moment, they suddenly engage themselves in
doing something, and come to grief.
They do not know the pros and cons
of an occupation or a project or an undertaking.
Na śaucaṁ: Very unclean are their habits, dirty is
their behaviour—inwardly as well as outwardly.
Na śaucaṁ nāpi cācāraḥ: They have no good conduct, no special
routine of the day, and they are not aware of such a thing as tidiness,
cleanliness, as we say. All these are unknown to them. They just act according
to their whim.
Na satyaṁ teṣu vidyate means
no truthfulness. They say anything they like, provided they are able to get
something out of it, even if it means exploiting or even destroying other
people.
Verse 8
They say: “This universe
is without truth, without a (moral) basis, without a God, brought about by
mutual union, with lust for its cause; what else?”
They do not believe in God. The
world is complete in itself.
Why should there be a Creator for
the world? The five elements constitute this body. God has not made this body.
The body is made up of only this
material stuff, and it has no transcendent support as others may say.
The concourse of men and women,
and qualities which are positive and negative, and such other combinations,
biological as well as chemical, are the causes of the coming into being of
anything in this world. There is no Creator, and there is no Transcendent
Being.
Verse 9
Holding this view, these ruined souls of small intellects
and fierce deeds, come forth as enemies of the world for its destruction.
They are a terror
for everybody because they have a vision of life which is bent on
self-satisfaction and the destruction of everybody except themselves.
They have lost
their own souls, and they cannot see that there is a soul in anybody else.
There is no human feeling, there is no respect for humanity, and there is no
necessity to work for the welfare of other people, because the vision of other
people requires the perception of humanity in them also, whereas the vision of
these people who are terror incarnate is a consuming attitude and not a
creative attitude; therefore, they veritably appear to be incarnations of
vehement violence and destruction.
They would not
like anybody else to live except themselves.
They are the
people who do great injustice to the world.
Verse 10
Filled with insatiable desires, full of hypocrisy, pride and
arrogance, holding evil ideas through delusion, they work with impure resolves.
Their desires are
endless. Insatiable longing and passion is their quality. They have
ideologies which are entirely materialistic, sensory
and outward The philosophy of life that they entertain—is
something which is pleasing to their egos and totally destructive of the
higher, real values of life which are spiritually awakening, to which they are
totally opposed.
Continued......
Love.
