Sublime teachings and words of Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
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Such is the thought of the demonic man: “So much wealth is mine today, and by my plans, even more will come. I possess so much today, and tomorrow more and more. This man was one of my enemies, and I killed him; in turn, I will kill the others. I am lord and master of everything, the beneficiary of everything. I am perfect, I am powerful, I am happy, I am the richest, and I am surrounded by high relations. No one can attain my power and happiness. I will perform sacrifices, do charity, and thereby rejoice.”

Thus, ignorance leads him astray.

Confused by multiple anxieties and caught in a net of illusions, he becomes too attached to sensual pleasures and sinks into hell. Vain of himself, always arrogant, led astray by wealth and conceit, he sometimes performs sacrifices, but without any principle or rule, these can only bear the name. Having sought refuge in the false ego (identification with his body, the bodily conception of existence, and the domination of material nature), in power, pride, lust and anger, the demoniac blasphemes the true religion and envies me, the Supreme Lord, who resides in his own body, as in that of others (of each of the other living beings, human, animal and vegetable).

The envious and evildoers, the lowest of men, I plunge into the ocean of material existence under the various demonic forms of life. They are reborn life after life within the demonic species, never able to approach Me. Little by little, they sink into the most sinister condition.

Three gates open to this hell: lust, anger, and greed. Let every sane person close them, for they lead the soul to its destruction. The person who has managed to avoid these three gates of hell devotes his existence to actions that lead to spiritual realization. Thus, he gradually attains the supreme goal (God).

On the other hand, he who rejects the precepts of the scriptures (the Vedas, the original holy scriptures) to act according to his whim achieves neither perfection, nor happiness, nor the supreme goal. What is your duty and what is not, then determine in the light of the principles given in the scriptures. Knowing these laws, act in such a way as to gradually elevate yourself.

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