Chapter 16: Daivāsura-sampad-vibhāga-yoga: / Verse 18

Can the intelligent humans be so self-destructive? The attitude and behaviour of the ¡sura lot offer a full answer to the question!

Bad qualities like egoism, blinding power and arrogance can drive one to any extent of viciousness. Lust and anger have untold power to steep the human mind into shocking cruelty and destruction. If these instigations are not checked, instead allowed to grow strong, nothing can arrest the havoc they work.

Krishna gives a new dimension to the entire social perversions. He says the root cause for the whole malady is that these devious minds fail to understand that they are hating and harming the supreme Reality residing in their own as well as others’ hearts. This one revelation should stir up their conscience against any kind of criminal misdeeds. For any vice, the true correction should come from one’s own within.