Daivasura Sampad Vibhaga Yoga
Krishna lays out two contrasting sets of inborn human tendencies. The divine nature (daivi sampad) includes fearlessness, purity of heart, steadiness in knowledge and charity, self-control, honesty, non-violence, freedom from anger, renunciation, compassion and gentleness — qualities that lead toward liberation. The demonic nature (asuri sampad), by contrast, is marked by hypocrisy, arrogance, anger, harshness and ignorance, and Krishna describes those dominated by it as believing the world has no moral foundation and no governing truth, driven instead by insatiable desire, deceit and self-importance, which binds them to repeated and increasingly degraded rebirth. The chapter's most quoted teaching names desire, anger and greed as a 'threefold gate to hell' that destroys the self, urging their abandonment above all else. It closes with a plainer, practical instruction: rather than acting purely on impulse or desire, a person should let scripture (shastra) be the authority determining right conduct.
“Fearlessness, purity of heart, steadfastness in knowledge and yoga, charity, self-restraint, sacrifice, and study of scripture...”
“...non-violence, truthfulness, freedom from anger, renunciation, compassion for all beings, gentleness, and modesty — these belong to one born with a divine nature.”
Continues the list begun in 16.1-2, the Gita's description of divine qualities (daivi sampad).
“Hypocrisy, arrogance, conceit, anger, harshness, and ignorance — these belong to one born with a demonic nature.”
“Threefold is this gate of hell, destructive of the self: desire, anger, and greed. Therefore one should abandon these three.”
The chapter's most frequently quoted line — the "three gates to hell" (kama, krodha, lobha).
“Therefore let scripture be your authority in determining what should and should not be done; knowing what is enjoined by its rules, you should act in this world.”
Chapter summaries composed for MyBrahman; verse translations from the public-domain Kashinath Trimbak Telang translation (1882, Sacred Books of the East, vol. 8) where directly checkable, and/or widely-attested traditional renderings of famous verses, cited by standard chapter.verse numbering.