Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand 780

Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji

CHAPTER 16 The Yog of Telling The Devine From the Demoniacal Which, however, are the abodes of the righteous and of the unrighteous impulses? Discoursing on this, Krishna has said that people’s disposition is of two kinds, the pious and the impious. A person is godly if there is an abundance of the divine impulses in him, but is devilish if he teems with vices. Wherever they are born and whatever names they are known by, people cannot but belong to one of these two classes. Krishn then gives a detailed account of the attributes of men who are cursed with evil disposition. Men with unrighteous predilections have no inkling of how to undertake action that is worth doing, nor of how to abstain from that which is unworthy. Since they have not undertaken action, there is in them neither truth nor purity, nor the right conduct. According to them the world has neither any shelter nor God, and is just mechanically generated by carnal intercourse. So, indulgence is their ultimate goal, for there is nothing beyond it for them. Such a delusion was common in Krishn’s age, too. In fact, it has always existed. It is not that only Charvak has propagated such a view; it will be there so long as the human psyche is subject to the rise and ebb of divine and devilish instincts.