• Krishna. Fearlessness, singleness of soul, the will
• Always to strive for wisdom; opened hand
• And governed appetites; and piety,
• And love of lonely study; humbleness,
• Uprightness, heed to injure nought which lives,
• Truthfulness, slowness unto wrath, a mind
• That lightly letteth go what others prize;
• And equanimity, and charity
• Which spieth no man's faults; and tenderness
• Towards all that suffer; a contented heart,
• Fluttered by no desires; a bearing mild,
• Modest, and grave, with manhood nobly mixed,
• With patience, fortitude, and purity;
• An unrevengeful spirit, never given
• To rate itself too high;- such be the signs,
• O Indian Prince! of him whose feet are set
• On that fair path which leads to heavenly birth!
• Deceitfulness, and arrogance, and pride,
• Quickness to anger, harsh and evil speech,
• And ignorance, to its own darkness blind,-
• These be the signs, My Prince! of him whose birth
• Is fated for the regions of the vile.
• The Heavenly Birth brings to deliverance,
• So should'st thou know! The birth with Asuras
• Brings into bondage. Be thou joyous, Prince!
• Whose lot is set apart for heavenly Birth.
• Two stamps there are marked on all living men,
• Divine and Undivine; I spake to thee
• By what marks thou shouldst know the Heavenly Man,
• Hear from me now of the Unheavenly!
• They comprehend not, the Unheavenly,
• How Souls go forth from Me; nor how they come
• Back unto Me: nor is there Truth in these,
• Nor purity, nor rule of Life. "This world
• Hath not a Law, nor Order, nor a Lord,"
• So say they: "nor hath risen up by Cause
• Following on Cause, in perfect purposing,
• But is none other than a House of Lust."
• And, this thing thinking, all those ruined ones-
• Of little wit, dark-minded- give themselves
• To evil deeds, the curses of their kind.
• Surrendered to desires insatiable,
• Full of deceitfulness, folly, and pride,
• In blindness cleaving to their errors, caught
• Into the sinful course, they trust this lie
• As it were true- this lie which leads to death-
• Finding in Pleasure all the good which is,
• And crying "Here it finisheth!"
• Ensnared
• In nooses of a hundred idle hopes,
• Slaves to their passion and their wrath, they buy
• Wealth with base deeds, to glut hot appetites;
• "Thus much, to-day," they say, "we gained! thereby
• Such and such wish of heart shall have its fill;
• And this is ours! and th' other shall be ours!
• To-day we slew a foe, and we will slay
• Our other enemy to-morrow! Look!
• Are we not lords? Make we not goodly cheer?
• Is not our fortune famous, brave, and great?
• Rich are we, proudly born! What other men
• Live like to us? Kill, then, for sacrifice!
• Cast largesse, and be merry!" So they speak
• Darkened by ignorance; and so they fall-
• Tossed to and fro with projects, tricked, and bound
• In net of black delusion, lost in lusts-
• Down to foul Naraka. Conceited, fond,
• Stubborn and proud, dead-drunken with the wine
• Of wealth, and reckless, all their offerings
• Have but a show of reverence, being not made
• In piety of ancient faith. Thus vowed
• To self-hood, force, insolence, feasting, wrath,
• These My blasphemers, in the forms they wear
• And in the forms they breed, my foemen are,
• Hateful and hating; cruel, evil, vile,
• Lowest and least of men, whom I cast down
• Again, and yet again, at end of lives,
• Into some devilish womb, whence- birth by birth-
• The devilish wombs re-spawn them, all beguiled;
• And, till they find and worship Me, sweet Prince!
• Tread they that Nether Road.
• The Doors of Hell
• Are threefold, whereby men to ruin pass,-
• The door of Lust, the door of Wrath, the door
• Of Avarice. Let a man shun those three!
• He who shall turn aside from entering
• All those three gates of Narak, wendeth straight
• To find his peace, and comes to Swarga's gate.

HERE ENDETH Chapter XVI OF THE BHAGAVAD-GITA, Entitled "Daivasarasaupadwibhagayog," Or "The Book of the Separateness of the Divine and Undivine."