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{{ToBeEdited}}Daivasura Sampad Vibhaga Yoga (Samskrit: दैवासुरसम्पद्विभागयोगः) is the title given to the sixteenth chapter of the [[Bhagavad Gita (भगवद्गीता)|Bhagavad Gita]]. This chapter brings about the intimate connection between ethics and spirituality, between a life of virtue and realisation of the Supreme and moksha.<ref name=":0">Swami Sivananda (2000), [https://holybooks-lichtenbergpress.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/BHAGAVAD-GITA-By-SRI-SWAMI-SIVANANDA.pdf Bhagavad Gita], Uttar Pradesh: The Divine Life Society, The Yoga of the Division between the Divine and the Demoniacal.</ref>

{{ToBeEdited}}Daivasura Sampad Vibhaga Yoga (Samskrit: दैवासुरसम्पद्विभागयोगः) is the title given to the sixteenth chapter of the [[Bhagavad Gita (भगवद्गीता)|Bhagavad Gita]]. This chapter brings about the intimate connection between ethics and adhyatmikity, between a life of virtue and realisation of the Supreme and moksha.<ref name=":0">Swami Sivananda (2000), [https://holybooks-lichtenbergpress.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/BHAGAVAD-GITA-By-SRI-SWAMI-SIVANANDA.pdf Bhagavad Gita], Uttar Pradesh: The Divine Life Society, The Yoga of the Division between the Divine and the Demoniacal.</ref>

== परिचयः ॥ Introduction ==

== परिचयः ॥ Introduction ==

The Chapter Daivasura Sampad Vibhaga Yoga is instructive in nature and is important to all those who wish to attain happiness, prosperity and blessedness. In fact, it is considered most important especially to seekers who wish to attain success in their spiritual life.<ref name=":0" />

The Chapter Daivasura Sampad Vibhaga Yoga is instructive in nature and is important to all those who wish to attain happiness, prosperity and blessedness. In fact, it is considered most important especially to seekers who wish to attain success in their adhyatmik life.<ref name=":0" />

== अध्यायसारः ॥ Summary of Sixteenth Chapter ==

== अध्यायसारः ॥ Summary of Sixteenth Chapter ==

In this Chapter, Sri Krishna answers questions like What kind of nature should one develop?, What conduct must one follow?, What way should one live and act if one must attain the Supreme and obtain divine bliss?, etc. While doing so, He lists two sets of qualities of opposite kinds and classifies them as divine and undivine. He urges us to eradicate the latter and cultivate the divine qualities. For, the pure divine qualities are conducive to peace and liberation while, the undivine qualities lead to bondage.  

In this Chapter, Sri Krishna answers questions like What kind of nature should one develop?, What conduct must one follow?, What way should one live and act if one must attain the Supreme and obtain divine bliss?, etc. While doing so, He lists two sets of qualities of opposite kinds and classifies them as divine and undivine. He urges us to eradicate the latter and cultivate the divine qualities. For, the pure divine qualities are conducive to peace and liberation while, the undivine qualities lead to bondage.  

It is said that passion, anger and greed are the three gates to naraka. Only when released from these three qualities, can one succeed in attaining moksha thereby reaching the highest goal, the ultimate reality. Thus, the sacred scriptures teach wisely the right path of pure and virtuous living. And a wise person, desiring success, is adviced to eradicate vice and cultivate virtue. Because purity, good conduct and truth are indispensable to spiritual progress and even to an honourable life on earth. Devoid of purity, good conduct and truth, and having no faith in a higher Reality beyond this visible world, one degenerates into a two-legged beast of ugly character and cruel actions, and sinks into darkness. Such a person then becomes his own enemy and the destroyer of the happiness of others as well as his own. If one is caught in countless desires and cravings, is a slave of sensual enjoyments and beset by a thousand cares, one's life ultimately ends in misery and degradation. It is haughtiness, arrogance and egoism that lead one to this dire fate. And in order to counter this fate, one must follow the injunctions of the sacred scriptures that wish his welfare and thereby be guided in his actions by their noble teachings.<ref name=":0" />

It is said that passion, anger and greed are the three gates to naraka. Only when released from these three qualities, can one succeed in attaining moksha thereby reaching the highest goal, the ultimate reality. Thus, the sacred scriptures teach wisely the right path of pure and virtuous living. And a wise person, desiring success, is adviced to eradicate vice and cultivate virtue. Because purity, good conduct and truth are indispensable to adhyatmik progress and even to an honourable life on earth. Devoid of purity, good conduct and truth, and having no faith in a higher Reality beyond this visible world, one degenerates into a two-legged beast of ugly character and cruel actions, and sinks into darkness. Such a person then becomes his own enemy and the destroyer of the happiness of others as well as his own. If one is caught in countless desires and cravings, is a slave of sensual enjoyments and beset by a thousand cares, one's life ultimately ends in misery and degradation. It is haughtiness, arrogance and egoism that lead one to this dire fate. And in order to counter this fate, one must follow the injunctions of the sacred scriptures that wish his welfare and thereby be guided in his actions by their noble teachings.<ref name=":0" />

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