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Chapter XVI24 verses

अथ षोडशोऽध्यायः

दैवासुरसंपद्विभागयोगः

The Yoga of Division Between the Divine and the Demonical Endowments

Daivāsura-saṁpad-vibhāga-yoga

Grieve not, for the soul born to the light has only to close the three doors of desire, wrath and greed, and its divine endowment will carry it towards freedom. — The Delight of Krishna

The soul enters in
puruṣottama — the Supreme known and adored, while the nature is not yet made his
and is led towards
daivī sampad — the divine endowment that leads to liberation
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Summary of chapter 16

Deva and Asura - The Site now proceeds to give the psychological discipline by which our human and earthly nature can be transmuted. But first it prefaces the consideration of this enlightening movement by a distinction between two kinds of being. the Deva and the Asura.

Chapter 16 illustration, titled दैवासुरसंपद्विभागयोगः
Illustration · Sushanto Nath, Sri Aurobindo Society

Chapter outline

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  1. 16·1–3The properties of divine character.
  2. 16·4–18The properties of demoniac character.
  3. 16·19–24The undivine consequences of demoniac properties; advice to regulate life by divine Law.
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Śrī Bhagavān uvācaश्रीभगवानुवाच

  1. 16·19तानहं द्विषतः क्रूरान्संसारेषु नराधमान् । क्षिपाम्यजस्रमशुभानासुरीष्वेव योनिषु ॥ १९ ॥tānahaṁ dviṣataḥ krūrānsaṁsāreṣu narādhamān, kṣipāmyajasramaśubhānāsurīṣveva yoniṣu.These proud haters (of good and of God), evil, cruel, vilest among men in the world, I cast down continually…
  2. 16·20आसुरीं योनिमापन्ना मूढा जन्मनि जन्मनि । मामप्राप्यैव कौन्तेय ततो यान्त्यधमां गतिम् ॥ २० ॥āsurīṁ yonimāpannā mūḍhā janmanijanmani, māmaprāpyaiva kaunteya tato yāntyadhamāṁ gatim.Cast into Asuric wombs, deluded birth after birth, they find Me not (as they do not seek Me) and sink down…
  3. 16·21, a key verseत्रिविधं नरकस्येदं द्वारं नाशनमात्मनः । कामः क्रोधस्तथा लोभस्तस्मादेतत्त्रयं त्यजेत् ॥ २१ ॥trividhaṁ narakasyedaṁ dvāraṁ nāśanamātmanaḥ, kāmaḥ krodhastathā lobhastasmādetattrayaṁ tyajet.Threefold are the doors of Hell, destructive of the soul – desire, wrath and greed…
  4. 16·22, a key verseएतैर्विमुक्तः कौन्तेय तमोद्वारैस्त्रिभिर्नरः । आचरत्यात्मनः श्रेयस्ततो याति परां गतिम् ॥ २२ ॥etairvimuktaḥ kaunteya tamodvāraistribhirnaraḥ, ācaratyātmanaḥ śreyastato yāti parāṁ gatim.A man liberated from these doors of darkness, O son of Kunti, follows his own higher good and arrives at the…
  5. 16·23यः शास्त्रविधिमुत्सृज्य वर्तते कामकारतः । न स सिद्धिमवाप्नोति न सुखं न परां गतिम् ॥ २३ ॥yaḥ śāstravidhimutsṛjya vartate kāmakārataḥ, na sa siddhimavāpnoti na sukhaṁ na parāṁ gatim.He who, having cast aside the rules of the Shastra, followeth the promptings of desire, attaineth not to…
  6. 16·24, a key verseतस्माच्छास्त्रं प्रमाणं ते कार्याकार्यव्यवस्थितौ । ज्ञात्वा शास्त्रविधानोक्तं कर्म कर्तुमिहार्हसि ॥ २४ ॥tasmācchāstraṁ pramāṇaṁ te kāryākāryavyavasthitau, jñātvā śāstravidhānoktaṁ karma kartumihārhasi.Therefore let the Shastra be thy authority in determining what ought to be done or what ought not to be done.
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End of the chapter

ॐ तत्सदिति श्रीमद्भगवद्गीतासूपनिषत्सुब्रह्मविद्यायां योगशास्त्रे श्रीकृष्णार्जुनसंवादेदैवासुरसम्पद्विभागयोगो नाम षोडशोऽध्यायः ॥ १६॥

om tatsaditi śrīmadbhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsubrahmavidyāyāṁ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṁvādedaivāsurasampadvibhāgayogo nāma ṣoḍaśo’dhyāyaḥ

Thus, in the Upanishad sung by the Lord, the science of Brahman, the scripture of Yoga, the dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjuna, ends the sixteenth chapter entitled “The Yoga of the Distinction between the Divine and the Demoniac Endowments”

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