Chapter 16 verse 10
“Harboring insatiable lust, hypocrisy, pride and arrogance, the demonic beings cling to their false tenets. Thus clouded, they are attracted to the impermanent and work with impure resolve.”
Daily
sandhya vandanam has the sloka which prays to the Supreme to help control
desires, lust and anger. Each of us has the asuric tendencies somewhere in us
just in equal measure to the possibility of divinity.
Reflecting on this chapter reminds me a lot of my
demonic tendencies and it is a wake-up call for me to subdue it with the weapon
of God’s grace. Where there is impurity in the heart, God cannot reside there.
The impure mind, body, intellect and ego gets attached to the material
impermanence of world and gets mired in pride, jealously, hypocrisy, arrogance
and lust. Anyone can slip into this quagmire. The only way out is to appeal to
the Divine in us and stay on the sattvic path as much as possible.
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