Bhagwad Gita - Post 200

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......

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