Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand 763

Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji

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CHAPTER 16
The Yog of Telling
The Devine From the Demoniacal

प्रवृत्तिं च निवृत्तिं च जना न विदुरासुरा:।
न शौचं नापि चाचारो न सत्यं तेषु विद्यते ॥7॥

[ “Wanting in inclination to both engage in proper action and avoid improper acts, the demoniacal have neither purity nor the right conduct, nor even truthfulness.” ]

Men with devilish predilections are ignorant both of that which is worthy of being done and of that which ought to be escaped because it is unrighteous. So they are bereft of innocence, just conduct, and of the eternal verities. How their minds function is represented in the following verse:

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