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Chapter 11
Their eagerness, is just like worldly human beings, who want to behold the Lord, while hankering after worldly pleasure and prosperity. If a traveller while travelling, finds a jewel, and gets lost in, it without reaching the destination, the gods attach secondary importance to salvation, and so they cannot behold the Lord, as they are too much entangled in pleasure.
The gods cannot behold the Lord, by having eagerness, because they are proud of the high status of their divine abode, bodies and pleasures etc. Therefore, Arjuna, in the fourteenth verse of the tenth chapter, said, "0 Lord, neither the gods nor demons know Your manifestation." Thus Arjuna, has taken both of them as belonging to the same category. It means, that as the gods possess prosperity, the demons possess magical power. But, prosperity or power is not conducive, to the Lord's vision. He, can be seen by exclusive devotion (11/54), both by the gods and human beings. By the expression Deva api, the Lord means to say, that virtuous actions can lead to higher regions, rather than to God-realization.
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