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The Bhagavad Gita1484
“Being filled with Pride, Power, Ostentation, Lust and Selfishness, they are
consumed with Hate, Malice and Slander, and hate Me in themselves and in
others. Wherefore, are these vile, sensual, hating, pitiless ones—these evil
beings who hate Me and all that is Good—cast down into continual re-birth
into the wombs of mire and filth and uncleanliness.
“And, if even in these lower depths of uncleanliness, they learn not the
lesson, and grow not sick and filled with nausea at the filth of sensuality and
long not to begin the upward path from the Hell into which they have been
cast—if they learn not even this lesson, but, instead, still true to their nature,
they prefer to sink to lower and still lower planes—then finally they sink into
the final stage which meaneth Annihilation. And thus do they lose their souls
indeed and exist no more, even as their foolish philosophies have taught
them to expect, but in a far different manner and even from causes which
they strenuously denied. Such come not to Me—ever or at any time—but
are lost forever and ever, for from Nothingness there is no return.
“Three passages are there to this Hell of Lower Re-birth, and these three
are, Lust, Anger and Avarice—the destroyers of the soul if finally persisted
in. Therefore should men avoid them as demoniac roads to destruction
and Inferno. He who renounceth them as such, and freeing himself from
the Tamas Guna, or Dark Quality, shall rise upward, and advancing step by
step, shall regain The Path which leadeth to the Heavenly State of the Divine
Union. But he who abandoneth the dictates of Spiritual Wisdom, and giveth
himself up to the delusions and errors of Lust, Anger and Avarice, verily
shalt he attain neither Perfection, Happiness, nor the Divine State.
“Wherefore, O Arjuna, thou should acquaint thyself with the highest
Spiritual Teachings; and the understanding regarding Right Action and
Wrong Action, that thou may perform the one and avoid the other. Seeketh
thou the Highest Light of Wisdom, and govern thy works accordingly.”
thus endeth part xvi, of the bhagavad gita, which part is called “the
good and evil natures.”