Daivasura Sampad Vibhaga Yoga

The daivi sampad is the divine endowment, the qualities to take up: fearlessness, purity, self-restraint, truthful speech, non-violence, compassion, and the like. The asuri sampad is the demonic endowment: pretence, arrogance, conceit, anger, harshness, and the loss of the power to tell right action from wrong. The divine endowment leads to release from the round of birth and death, the demonic to bondage; Krishna reassures Arjuna that he is born to the divine side. There are only two kinds of beings, and the long portrait that follows describes the demonic one so a seeker can spot these marks in himself and avoid them: bottomless craving, hypocrisy, sacrifice done only for show, the boast that credits every gain to oneself, and hatred of the Lord who dwells in all. Such people fall into lower births. Krishna closes by naming desire, anger, and greed as the threefold gate of hell, telling the seeker to give up all three, and making scripture the measure of right action. The schools differ on what release finally means and on how one is born to a given nature. Advaita Vedanta, Vishishtadvaita, Dvaita, Shuddhadvaita, Bhakti, and Kashmir Shaivism each read it their own way.