Divine Qualities Lead to Liberation – Demoniac Qualities Bind

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Bhagavad-gītā 16.5 — February 23, 1972, Calcutta 720223BG-CALCUTTA [46:31 Minutes] Bg-16.05_720223BG-CALCUTTA Prabhupāda: nibandhāyāsurī matā mā śucaḥ sampadaṁ daivīm abhijāto 'si pāṇḍava [Bg. 16.5] Arjuna is advised by Kṛṣṇa. He has described before the..., what is daivī sampati and what is āsurī sampat. Abhayaṁ sattva-saṁśuddhir. These are daivī sampat: abhayaṁ sattva-saṁśuddhir jñāna-yoga-vyavasthitiḥ dānaṁ damaś ca yajñaś ca svādhyāyas tapa ārjavam [Bg. 16.1] ahiṁsā satyam akrodhas tyāgaḥ śāntir apaiśunam dayā bhūteṣv aloluptvaṁ mārdavaṁ hrīr acāpalam [Bg. 16.2] tejaḥ kṣamā dhṛtiḥ śaucam adroho nāti mānitā bhavanti sampadaṁ daivīm abhijātasya bhārata [Bg. 16.3] So there are two classes of men...

There are two classes of men within this world. In the Viṣṇu Purāṇa it is said that viṣṇu-bhaktaḥ bhaved daivaḥ [Padma Purāṇa]. Those are viṣṇu-bhaktas, devotee of Lord Viṣṇu... Three deities—Viṣṇu, Maheśvara and Brahmā.

Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Maheśvara. So those who are devotees of Viṣṇu, they are devatā. Not that the asuras, just like Rāvaṇa. Rāvaṇa was a great devotee of Lord Śiva, and Hiraṇyakaśipu was great devotee of Brahmā, but both of them have been described as asura and rākṣasa.

They are great devotees. Therefore the conclusion is there are two classes of men, asura and devatā. The viṣṇu bhaktaḥ bhaved daivaḥ, those who are devotees of Lord Viṣṇu, they are deva, devatā, or demigods, and asuras tad-viparyayaḥ. What is the difference between devatā and asura? The..., that is explained by Kṛṣṇa, that daivī sampad vimokṣāya [Bg. 16.5].

If you develop your divine qualities, as they're described, ahiṁsā, sattva-saṁśuddhiḥ... Sattva-saṁśuddhiḥ. Sattva-saṁśuddhiḥ means existentional purification. Our..., we, as spirit soul, we are pure originally, because Kṛṣṇa is pure.

Arjuna accepts Kṛṣṇa, after understanding Bhagavad-gītā, paraṁ brahma paraṁ dhāma pavitram-paramaṁ bhavān [Bg. 10.12]: "You are paraṁ pavitra.'' And God is paraṁ pavitra is admitted in the Īśopaniṣad: apāpa-viddham [Īśo mantra 8], asnāviram. Asnāviram means in the body of God there are no veins, and therefore apāpa-viddham. Veins, as soon as you have got this veins, that is material body. The body is maintained under certain material condition. You eat, and this eating substance transformed into secretion, then through the veins this comes to the heart, and heart it becomes red, corpuscle, the blood; the blood is diffused.

Therefore there are so many channels, veins. And these things are pushed on with air, and if there is shortage of air circulation, the man becomes paralyzed. This is scientific. So these things are required for the material body, not for the spiritual body. In spiritual body, asnāviram, there is no vein.

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