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Daivasura Sampad Vibhaga Yoga (Samskrit: दैवासुरसम्पद्विभागयोगः) is the title given to the sixteenth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. This chapter brings about the intimate connection between ethics and spirituality, between a life of virtue and God-realisation and liberation.

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>

== परिचयः ॥ Introduction ==

== परिचयः ॥ Introduction ==

This discourse is important and very instructive to all persons who wish to attain happiness, prosperity and blessedness, and to seekers in particular, who wish to attain success in their spiritual life. Lord Krishna brings out quite clearly and unmistakably here the intimate connection between ethics and spirituality, between a life of virtue and God-realisation and liberation. Listing two sets of qualities of opposite kinds, the Lord classifies them as divine and demoniacal (undivine), and urges us to eradicate the latter and cultivate the divine qualities.

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" />

What kind of nature should one develop? What conduct must one follow? What way should one live and act if one must attain God and obtain divine bliss? These questions are answered with perfect clarity and very definitely. The pure divine qualities are conducive to peace and liberation and the undivine qualities lead to bondage. Purity, good conduct and truth are indispensable to spiritual progress and even to an honourable life here.

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.  

Devoid of purity, good conduct and truth, and having no faith in God or a higher Reality beyond this visible world, man degenerates into a two-legged beast of ugly character and cruel actions, and sinks into darkness. Such a person becomes his own enemy and the destroyer of the happiness of others as well as his own. Caught in countless desires and cravings, a slave of sensual enjoyments and beset by a thousand cares, his life ultimately ends in misery and degradation. Haughtiness, arrogance and egoism lead to this dire fate. Therefore, a wise person, desiring success, must eradicate vice and cultivate virtue.

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" />

 

In this world three gates lead to hell—the gates of passion, anger and greed. Released from these three qualities one can succeed in attaining salvation and reaching the highest goal, namely God. Thus the sacred scriptures teach wisely the right path of pure, virtuous living. One should therefore follow the injunctions of the sacred scriptures that wish his welfare and be guided in his actions by their noble teachings.  

 

== अध्यायसारः ॥ Summary of Sixteenth Chapter ==

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ॐ श्रीपरमात्मने नमः '''अथ षोडशोऽध्यायः'''

ॐ श्रीपरमात्मने नमः '''अथ षोडशोऽध्यायः'''

'''श्रीभगवानुवाच''' 

'''श्रीभगवानुवाच'''

अभयं सत्त्वसंशुद्धिर्ज्ञानयोगव्यवस्थितिः । दानं दमश्च यज्ञश्च स्वाध्यायस्तप आर्जवम् ॥१६- १॥

अभयं सत्त्वसंशुद्धिर्ज्ञानयोगव्यवस्थितिः । दानं दमश्च यज्ञश्च स्वाध्यायस्तप आर्जवम् ॥१६- १॥

ॐ तत्सदिति श्रीमद्भगवद्गीतासूपनिषत्सु ब्रह्मविद्यायां योगशास्त्रे श्रीकृष्णार्जुनसंवादे दैवासुरसंपद्विभागयोगो नाम षोडशोऽध्यायः ॥१६॥

ॐ तत्सदिति श्रीमद्भगवद्गीतासूपनिषत्सु ब्रह्मविद्यायां योगशास्त्रे श्रीकृष्णार्जुनसंवादे दैवासुरसंपद्विभागयोगो नाम षोडशोऽध्यायः ॥१६॥