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    "title": "Discourse 16: The Yoga of Discrimination Between the Divine and the Demoniacal",
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    "text": "## Discourse 16: The Yoga of Discrimination Between the Divine and the Demoniacal\n\n\nVerse 16:1: The Blessed Lord said: Fearlessness, cleanness of life, steadfastness in the Yoga \nof wisdom, almsgiving, self-restraint and sacrifice and study of the Scriptures, austerity and \nstraightforwardness, \n\nVerse 16:2: Harmlessness, truth, absence of wrath, renunciation, peacefulness, absence of \ncrookedness, compassion to living beings, uncovetousness, mildness, modesty, absence of \nfickleness, \n\nVerse 16:3: Vigour, forgiveness, fortitude, purity, absence of envy and pride—these are his \nwho is born with the divine properties, O Bharata. \n\nVerse 16:4: Hypocrisy, arrogance and conceit, wrath and also harshness and unwisdom are \nhis who is born, O Partha, with demoniacal properties. \n\nVerse 16:5: The divine properties are deemed to be for liberation, the demoniacal for \nbondage. Grieve not, thou art born with divine properties, O Pandava. \n\nVerse 16:6: Twofold is the animal creation in this world, the divine and the demoniacal: the \ndivine hath been described at length: hear from Me, O Partha, the demoniacal. \n\nVerse 16:7: Demoniacal men know neither right energy nor right abstinence; nor purity, nor \neven propriety, nor truth is in them. \n\nVerse 16:8: \"The universe is without truth, without basis,\" they say, \"without a God; brought \nabout by mutual union, and caused by lust and nothing else.\" \n\nVerse 16:9: Holding this view, these ruined selves of small understanding, of fierce deeds, \ncome forth as enemies for the destruction of the world. \n\nVerse 16:10: Surrendering themselves to insatiable desires, possessed with vanity, conceit \nand arrogance, holding evil ideas through delusion, they engage in action with impure \nresolves. \n\nVerse 16:11: Giving themselves ever to unmeasured thought whose end is death, regarding \nthe gratification of desires as the highest, feeling sure that this is all, \n\nVerse 16:12: Held in bondage by a hundred ties of expectation, given over to lust and anger, \nthey strive to obtain by unlawful means hoards of wealth for sensual enjoyments. \n\nVerse 16:13: \"This to-day by me hath been won, that purpose I shall gain; this wealth is \nmine already, and also this shall be mine in future. \n\nVerse 16:14: \"I have slain this enemy, and others also I shall slay. I am the Lord, I am the \nenjoyer, I am perfect, powerful, happy; \n\nVerse 16:15: \"I am wealthy, well-born; what other is there that is like unto me? I will \nsacrifice, I will give alms, I will rejoice.\" Thus deluded by unwisdom, \n\nVerse 16:16: Bewildered by numerous thoughts, enmeshed in the web of delusion, addicted \nto the gratification of desire, they fall downwards into a foul hell. \n\nVerse 16:17: Self-glorifying, stubborn, filled with the pride and intoxication of wealth, they \nperform lip-sacrifices for ostentation, contrary to scriptural ordinance. \n\nVerse 16:18: Given over to egoism, power, insolence, lust and wrath, these malicious ones \nhate Me in the bodies of others and in their own. \n\nVerse 16:19: These haters, evil, pitiless, vilest among men in the world, I ever throw down \ninto demoniacal wombs. \n\nVerse 16:20: Cast into demoniacal wombs, deluded birth after birth, attaining not to Me, O \nKaunteya, they sink into the lowest depths. \n\nVerse 16:21: Triple is the gate of this hell, destructive of the self—lust, wrath, and greed; \ntherefore let man renounce these three. \n\nVerse 16:22: A man liberated from these three gates of darkness, O son of Kunti, \naccomplisheth his own welfare, and thus reacheth the highest goal. \n\nVerse 16:23: He who having cast aside the ordinances of the Scriptures, followeth the \npromptings of desire, attaineth not to perfection, nor happiness, nor the highest goal. \n\nVerse 16:24: Therefore let the Scriptures be thy authority, in determining what ought to be \ndone, or what ought not to be done. Knowing what hath been declared by the ordinances of \nthe Scriptures, thou oughtest to work in this world.",
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