Life comes from life alone; demonic nature rejects truth while divine nature embraces Krishna consciousness through purity and faith.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 16.7 — February 3, 1975, Honolulu 750203BG-HONOLULU [44:57 Minutes] BG-16.07_750203BG-HONOLULU Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] pravṛttiṁ ca nivṛttiṁ ca janā na vidur āsurāḥ na śaucaṁ nāpi cācāro na satyaṁ teṣu vidyate [Bg. 16.7] [break] [01:53] "Those who are demoniac do not know what is to be done and what is not to be done.
Neither cleanliness nor proper behavior nor truth is found in them." Prabhupāda: pravṛttiṁ ca nivṛttiṁ ca janā na vidur āsurāḥ na śaucaṁ nāpi cācāro na satyaṁ teṣu vidyate [Bg. 16.7] So these are the symptoms of asura. We have already discussed the characteristic of divine nature and the characteristic of demonic nature. In the Viṣṇu Purāṇa this is also confirmed: dvau bhūta-sargau loke daiva āsura eva ca [Bg. 16.6]. There are two kinds of people all over the universe.
There is asuraloka and devaloka, planet. So devāsura fight, that is going on perpetually, daiva and asura, demonic nature and divine nature. There are many people, they do not like us because we are preaching God consciousness. This is our fault. Even in our country, in India, the government do not like us, because nowadays, everywhere practically, the demonic people being very much increased, the government is also demonic.
So they do not like people in divine nature. They will tolerate all kinds of noise—barking of the dogs, the motorcar passing, the aeroplane on overhead—but as soon as there is kīrtana, they're disturbed. They'll tolerate so many different types of noise, but they'll not tolerate kīrtana. That is from the very beginning. In New York, when we started this movement, so in the morning, at seven o'clock, we used to hold our class, and there was little sound, immediately the tenants from upwards, they'll come down and complain.
Sometimes they will call for police. And on the street, Second Avenue, there is always big, big trucks and motorcars going on, heavy sound. Then in your country the garbage carrier sound, the digging sound. So many sound they'll tolerate.
And as soon "Hare Kṛṣṇa," "Oh, it is intolerable." [laughter] This is demonic, the demonic. They'll not hear. Because that will do good to them by hearing, they'll not accept it. It is practically experienced, I know that the ghost, if you go in a house ghostly-haunted, if you chant Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra they'll go away. They cannot tolerate.
In my life there was several incidences like that. In my household life, I was doing business in Lucknow. So there was one house, very big house, worth thousands of rupees' rent, but it was ghostly haunted. So nobody would take that house.