section_path: Chapters and content/Chapter 16: Daivasura Sampad Vibhaga Yoga (24 verses)
section_name: Chapter 16: Daivasura Sampad Vibhaga Yoga (24 verses)
paragraph_text: Chapter 16: Daivasura Sampad Vibhaga Yoga (24 verses)
  
  Translators title the chapter as Daivasura–Sampad–Vibhaga yoga, The Separateness of the Divine and Undivine, Two Paths, or The Yoga of the Division between the Divine and the Demonic. According to Easwaran, this is an unusual chapter where Krishna describes two types of human nature: divine (daivi sampad), leading to happiness, and demonic (asuri sampad), leading to suffering. He states that truthfulness, self-restraint, sincerity, love for others, desire to serve others, being detached, avoiding anger, avoiding harm to all living creatures, fairness, compassion and patience are marks of the divine nature. The opposite of these are demonic, such as cruelty, conceit, hypocrisy and being inhumane, states Krishna. Some of the verses in Chapter 16 may be polemics directed against competing Indian religions, according to Basham. The competing tradition may be the materialists (Charvaka), states Fowler.