Divine & Demonic

Daivī vs āsurī — the two pulls in human nature — 42 verses, starred ones first.

1. 4.8 ★ For the protection of the good, destruction of wickedness, establishment of dharma — I come, age after age.
2. 4.34 ★ Approach the teacher with prostration, inquiry, and service. The knowers of truth will instruct you in jñāna.
3. 9.30 ★ Even if the most sinful worships Me with undivided devotion — he must be deemed righteous, for he has rightly resolved.
4. 6.40 ☆ O Pārtha — no destruction for that one, neither here nor hereafter. For never does any doer of good come to an evil end.
5. 16.3 ☆ The final daivī qualities: tejas, kṣamā, dhṛti, śauca, adroha, nātimānitā — belonging to one born to divine nature.
6. 1.19 The sound of righteous forces pierces the hearts of those who know they are on the wrong side.
7. 1.23 Arjuna calls Duryodhana evil-minded — the last moment of moral clarity before grief clouds everything.
8. 2.31 For a warrior, there is nothing higher than a righteous battle — this is your svadharma.
9. 2.32 This battle came to you unsought — the rarest opportunity for a warrior to fulfill their highest duty.
10. 2.33 If you don't fight this righteous battle, you abandon your duty and honor — and invite the consequences.
11. 5.25 Seers with sins destroyed, doubts cut, self-controlled, devoted to all beings' welfare — they attain brahma-nirvāṇa.
12. 6.9 Who sees friend, foe, stranger, kin, the righteous and the sinner with truly equal eyes — that one excels.
13. 7.15 The evildoer, the deluded, the lowest of men, those whose knowledge māyā has stolen — these do not take refuge in Me.
14. 9.1 I shall declare the most secret knowledge with realization to you who do not cavil — knowing it frees you from all evil.
15. 9.12 Of vain hopes, vain acts, vain knowledge, and senseless — they embrace the deluding nature of rākṣasas and asuras.
16. 9.13 The mahātmās of divine nature worship Me with undivided mind, knowing Me as the immutable origin of all beings.
17. 9.28 Thus freed from karma's bonds — both good and evil fruits — unified in renunciation-yoga, liberated, you come to Me.
18. 9.31 Quickly he becomes righteous and attains eternal peace — declare it, O Kuntī's son: My devotee is never destroyed.
19. 11.22 All celestial hosts — Rudras, Ādityas, Vasus, Aśvins, Gandharvas, Asuras, Siddhas — gaze at You in sheer amazement!
20. 11.42 In jest at play, meals, rest — alone or before others — I dishonored You, O Immeasurable Acyuta. Please forgive!
21. 12.17 No thrill, no hatred, no grief, no craving — renouncing both good and evil — this full-devotee is dear to Me!
22. 13.22 Puruṣa in prakṛti enjoys guṇas — attachment to guṇas is the cause of birth in good and evil wombs.
23. 15.18 Because I transcend both kṣara and akṣara, I am known in world and Veda as Puruṣottama — the Highest Puruṣa.
24. 16.5 Daivī wealth leads to liberation, āsurī to bondage. Do not grieve, Arjuna — you are born to the divine endowment.
25. 16.6 Two kinds of beings exist — daiva and āsura. The divine has been described; now hear the āsura from Me, O Arjuna.
26. 16.7 The āsurī know neither pravṛtti nor nivṛtti; purity, good conduct, and truth are all absent in them.
27. 16.8 The āsurī worldview: the world is unreal, groundless, Godless — produced only by matter-union and desire.
28. 16.10 Driven by insatiable kāma, hypocrisy, pride and arrogance, gripping false notions through moha — impure resolves.
29. 16.11 Immeasurable anxieties till death, sense-pleasure as the highest value, firmly certain that 'this is all there is.'
30. 16.12 Bound by hundreds of hope-nooses, devoted to kāma and krodha, they hoard wealth by unjust means for sense-enjoyment.
31. 16.13 The ego-monologue: 'I gained this today. I'll get that next. This is mine — and more wealth will be mine too.'
32. 16.14 'I slew that enemy; I'll slay others. I am Lord, Enjoyer, Perfect, Powerful, Happy' — the ego-apotheosis of the āsurī.
33. 16.19 Those who hate Me — cruel, vilest among humans — I continually cast into āsurī wombs, the inauspicious.
34. 16.20 In āsurī wombs, deluded birth after birth — never reaching Me — they go to still lower destinations.
35. 16.22 Free from these three tamas-gates, one acts for one's genuine good and reaches the Supreme Goal.
36. 16.23 One who abandons śāstra-vidhi to act from desire's impulse attains neither siddhi, nor sukha, nor the Supreme Goal.
37. 17.5 Those who practice ghora tapas without śāstric sanction, driven by dambha, ahaṃkāra, kāma and rāga — āsurī tapas.
38. 17.6 They torture their body's elements AND Me who dwell within — know these fools to be of āsurī resolve.
39. 17.18 Rājasic tapas: done for reception, honour, worship, and show — unstable and transient.
40. 18.44 Vaiśya dharma: agriculture, cattle-care, trade — born of svabhāva. Śūdra dharma: service — born of svabhāva.
41. 18.69 No one among humans does dearer service to Me, nor is there another dearer to Me on earth, than the Gita-teacher.
42. 18.71 Even one who only hears this with śraddhā and without malice is liberated and reaches the pure worlds of the righteous.