Gita 16.19 Devilish delights doom the demonic to deadly destinations

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Bhagavad Gita 16.19 Krishna speaks over here about the consequences of demoniac living and then He states to those people those who are envious what happens to them those are the lowest of lower people He casts them for a long time into demoniac wombs the Bhagavad Gita is clear that our view of life is incomplete if it does not include the next life that means unless we consider how a particular action is going to affect someone else in terms of going to affect that person in future we are really having a very fragmented vision of things and a fragmented vision of things is not what we want so what happens is when we look at things from this lifetime’s perspective it may appear as if the demoniac are having a good time they are enjoying life, they are powerful, they are wealthy they have even eliminated their enemies and thus they are living comfortably so what more might someone ask for but there is a lot wrong in their lives and the biggest thing that is wrong is that they are overwhelmed by the bad karma which they are doing for which they are going to get a destination in due course just like if we see some kids driving very fast, sometimes some people are called as speed demons speed demons means they drive at a deadly speed and they get a devilish delight almost a demoniac delight in driving at law defying and even death defying speeds but even when they are driving like this we have to check whether they are really doing well that means some other kids may look at it and they may think oh these people are having so much fun but the key question is how long is that fun going to last in due course if a sharp turn comes up or if a slip comes or if the vehicle skids or something they may fall and they may even die so it’s not that we can look only at the immediate and arrive at a conclusion about the nature of things we have to look beyond the immediate and only through that can we understand what is actually happening so similarly with respect to the demoniac they may seem to be having the ride of their life fulfilling their desires in whatever way they conceive and imagining that everything is great for themselves but the result the result would be that they are caught that they are trapped that they are bound and that is something which nobody wants so how are they trap bound? they are caught in a particular trajectory that is going to take them to a disastrous destination that is what is seen and shown over here in this verse when it is stated that just like a person who is driving very fast but you are driving to a road which ends in a steep fall from a cliff then that is their destination so similarly it is said these envious people, these mischievous people Krishna says, I cast them into into demoniac wombs it is interesting that Krishna has said that these demoniac qualities are born from birth that the godly and the godless demoniac qualities are what people acquire from their birth itself so then when Krishna is saying that means they are already born in demoniac wombs so what is the point of, what is so bad about getting them to be born in demoniac wombs once again no, the problem is that they are being born like that into places where their future is disastrous places where they have no future practically speaking because whatever they do they are simply caught in the illusion that they can enjoy life but their own godlessness is their prison in which their sadness and their misery is going to increase more and more with every passing day therefore it is vital for us to take things forward in our own particular situations and move forwards in ensuring that we have the right trajectory for us ahead so how is this to be done? Krishna will talk later about how we all need to follow Shastra if we want to have an auspicious destination for our life but even if that doesn’t work out is the personal agency that Krishna is talking about aham, it’s I who caused them is it indicating of a demoniac mentality? well, not necessarily it simply indicates a mentality that is that is not something which is very easy to deal with simply because that is the mentality which will force force people to get caught in their in their illusions they don’t want to get caught in their illusions then they have to work for protecting and purifying themselves by the protection of dharma so Krishna when he’s saying aham for example he says so Krishna works always for our eternal well-being and whatever way he works he works in a way that we all can become elevated so we work steadily gradually moving towards the Lord of our lives with the guidance of Shastra and to the extent the demoniac neglects Shastra to that extent their car continues super fast on a wrecked journey on a journey that is doomed so that is a fate which we all should try to avoid and we all can avoid by our steady practice of bhakti study our adherence to Shastra