Daivasura Sampad Vibhaga

Two natures, not as cosmic factions but as tendencies inside every person. The chapter is a mirror, and not always a comfortable one.

All 24 verses below.

Wisdom translation, edited by Ankur Shukla. Commentary AI-drafted, human-reviewed. Reviewed June 2026. Methodology →

Verses

• 16.1Right action starts with disciplined character.
• 16.2A noble character is proven by how gently it reacts.
• 16.3True strength looks like forgiveness, steadiness, and no need to dominate.
• 16.4False pride and cruelty reveal a nature already turned away from wisdom.
• 16.5Freedom grows from one kind of character; bondage grows from another.
• 16.6Human life divides by inner orientation, not by appearance.
• 16.7Without discernment, conduct collapses and truth disappears.
• 16.8Cynical explanations of life can become a permission slip for harmful action.
• 16.9False vision turns strength into destruction.
• 16.10Endless wanting turns the mind into a home for delusion.
• 16.11Endless wanting turns life into a tunnel with no horizon.
• 16.12Desire and anger turn ambition into injustice.
• 16.13Possession feeds appetite when the mind mistakes gain for completion.
• 16.14Ego turns achievement into delusion and mistakes possession for mastery.
• 16.15Pride turns abundance into delusion and makes more wanting feel justified.
• 16.16Desire scatters the mind, and confusion turns that scattering into a fall.
• 16.17Pride can hollow out sacred action until only appearance remains.
• 16.18Ego makes you fight the divine presence you carry yourself.
• 16.19Repeated hatred drives a person into worse and worse forms of existence.
• 16.20Repeated delusion keeps pulling a person farther from the divine.
• 16.21Three inner forces open the way to ruin; dropping them protects the self.
• 16.22Freedom from the three dark impulses opens the way to your highest good.
• 16.23Impulse cannot deliver what it promises.
• 16.24Impulse cannot judge action; a higher standard must.