The Blessed Lord said:
Fearlessness, purity of heart, steadfastness in the Yoga of wisdom, alms-giving, control of the senses (self-restraint) sacrifice, study of one.s own scriptures, austerity, straightforwardness, non-injury, absence of anger, renunciation, peacefulness, absence of crookedness, compassion to living beings, uncovetousness, gentleness, modesty, absence of fickleness, vigour, forgiveness, fortitude, purity, absence of hatred, absence of pride.these belong to one who is born with the divine properties.
O Bharata, Hypocrisy, arrogance, self-conceit, anger, harshness and ignorance, belong to one who is born, O Partha, with demoniacal properties. The divine properties are deemed to make for liberation, the demoniacal for bondage. Grieve not, thou art born with divine properties, O Pandava .Demoniacal men know not what to do and what to refrain from; neither purity nor good conduct, nor truth is found in them.
They say, .The universe is without truth, without a moral basis, without a God, brought about by mutual union, brought about by lust and nothing else. Filled with insatiable desires, full of hypocrisy, pride and arrogance, holding evil ideas through delusion, they work with impure resolves. Bound by a hundred ties of hope, given over to lust and anger, they strive to secure by unlawful means hoards of wealth for sensual enjoyments. .This today has been gained by me, this desire I shall obtain; this wealth is mine already, and also this shall be mine in future. I have slain this enemy, and others also I shall slay. I am lord, I enjoy, I am perfect, powerful and happy. I am rich, well-born, who else is equal to me? I will sacrifice. I will give charity. I will rejoice. These malicious; and cruel-doers, worst of men in the world, I hurl them for ever into the wombs of demons only.
Triple is the gate of this hell, destructive of the Self, lust, anger and greed; therefore, these three one should abandon. A man who is released from these three gates to darkness, O son of Kunti, does good to the self and thus reaches the Supreme Goal. He who setting aside the ordinances of the scriptures, acts under the impulse of desire, attains not to perfection, nor happiness, nor the Supreme Goal. Therefore let the scriptures be thy authority in deciding as what ought to be done and what ought not to be done. Having known what is said in the ordinances of the scriptures, thou shouldst work in this world.
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