Srimad Bhagavad Gita : Chapter-16. Daiva-asura-sampad-vibhaga-yogam, Slokam-9.

 

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Tuesday, March 23, 2021.11:39. AM.
Srimad Bhagavad Gita : Chapter-16. Daiva-asura-sampad-vibhaga-yogam, 
Slokam-9.
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Slokam-9.  

"etam  drshtimavashtabhya  nashtatmanolpabuddhayah,

prabhavantyugrakarmanah   kshayaya  jagatohitah."

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Translation :

etam  drshtim  =  this  one  view / vision;

avashtabhya  =  accepting  firmly;

nashta  atmanah  =  one  who  lost  his / her  balance  of  mind;

alpa-buddhayah  =  and  less  intelligent;

ugra-karmanah  =   and  in painful activities  ( in  violant  destructive  activities );

ahitah  =  unbeneficial ( un-desirable and  antinational  one );

jagatah  kshayaya  =  to  destry  this  world;

prabhavanti  =  born (  in  this  world )  it  is  sais  so.

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Tatvam(Essence) :

"Following such conclusions, the demoniac, who are lost to themselves and who have no intelligence, engage in not beneficial, horrible works meant to destroy the world."

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Commentary :

The demoniac are engaged in activities that will lead the world to destruction. The Lord states here that they are less intelligent. The materialists, who have no concept of God, think that they are advancing. But, according to Bhagavad-gita, they are unintelligent and devoid of all sense. They try to enjoy this material world to the utmost limit and therefore always engage in inventing something for sense gratification. 

Such materialistic inventions are considered to be advancement of human civilization, but the result is that people grow more and more violent and more and more cruel, cruel to animals and cruel to other human beings. They have no idea how to behave toward one another. Animal killing is very prominent amongt demoniac people. Such people are considered the enemies of the world because ultimately they will invent or create something which will bring destruction to all. Indirectly, this verse anticipates the invention of nuclear weapons, of which the whole world is today very proud. At any moment war may take place, and these atomic weapons may create havoc. Such things are created solely for the destruction of the world, and this is indicated here. Due to godlessness, such weapons are invented in human society; they are not meant for the peace and prosperity of the world.

Lord Krishna confirms that the demoniac embracing the doctrine of atheism negate their own atma or immortal soul because of illusion and their inability to accept anything other than the direct perception of what they experience with their mind and senses. Hence life after life they are oblivious to the eternal spiritual position inherent within them and they become deluded lost souls. 

The conceptions they adhere to are fallacious and their activities are despicable because they lack discriminative knowledge of the difference between the atma and the physical body. What is eternal and what is not eternal. What should be accepted and what should be rejected. 

Thus they are evilly disposed, enemies of all, full of violence, devoted to diabolical actions and the root of chaos and destruction throughout creation.

Krishna explains that the perceptions of the demoniac stem from exceedingly impure minds and deranged intellects that are extremely limited and so materialistically orientated that they are only able to accept and believe what they can directly perceive by their mind and senses. They incorrigibly perform heinous and horrible deeds that lead to the degradation and destruction of all creation.

Continuing further Lord Krishna gives some precise insights to the demoniac mentality. 1) Avastabhya means indiscriminately adopting erroneously as in the verse before. 2) Nasta-atmanah means devoid of any contact with their immortal soul. 3) Alpa-buddhaya means limited intellect due to being incognizant of the cognizant. 4) Ugra-karmanah means vile, heinous, horrendous activities destructive to all.

Such creatures are demoniac and are a parasitic, virulent virus destabilising all creation.

End.
Next-Slokam-10.
To be continued ....

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