Bound by hundreds of shackles of hope, devoted to desire and anger, they strive to accumulate wealth through unjust means for the gratification of their desires. In all these verses, hypocrisy, pride, arrogance, attachment, indulgence in desires, and being devoted to lust and anger—the Lord has not left out any of these. Then what would their actions be like? But in that other one, everything was kept in it. Bound by hundreds of shackles of hope, those humans, despite being devoted to lust and anger, make efforts to accumulate wealth even through unjust means, solely to acquire sensual pleasures. Bound by hundreds of shackles of hope, people with demonic nature remain bound by hundreds of shackles of hope. That is, they will get this power, they will get this much respect, they will get this much wealth, they will get this much health—such thousands of nooses of desires keep them bound by the shackles of attachment. Even if a person bound by the noose of hope gets some of it, his wretchedness and beggary do not go away. To the extent that they always harbor new hopes of getting something from God, from sadhus and mahatmas, from people, and from animals and birds. And the hopes of those who have not conquered their senses are never fulfilled, nor do they ever end. Bound by hope, they cannot remain steady in one place. Look how much trouble this is, if it is neither fulfilled nor does it end. What? It does not end either. Therefore, it becomes painful. All such desires arising from within oneself, first of all, are not fulfilled, and one cannot even let go of them. The hopes of those who have not conquered their senses are never fulfilled, nor do they ever end. Bound by hope, they cannot remain steady in one place. Devoted to desire and anger, their ultimate refuge is desire and anger. In the tenth verse, it was shown that hypocrisy, pride, and arrogance are their companions, and here it says desire and anger are their refuge, meaning their life is solely for fulfilling their desires and causing distress to others through anger. They have such a conviction and internal belief that without attachment, a human becomes inert and inactive. They consider desire itself to be synonymous with consciousness because in their life, there is no effort to please God. Therefore, if desires are shattered under any circumstances, life becomes a burden. Governance runs only through anger. How does it happen? That other thing just doesn't stop. They strive to accumulate wealth through unjust means for the gratification of their desires. The purpose of people with demonic nature is to accumulate wealth and enjoy sensual pleasures. They do not think about how justified it is to snatch away what belongs to someone else. It must come to my share only. Not to others. Whether it is power, wealth, or anything considered good in this world, it must come to my share only. It must not go to anyone else's share. It is written, 'accumulate wealth through unjust means.' They do not see whether it is reasonable or unreasonable. The main point is that they reject scriptural values, which state the worth of things, what should be done, and what should not be done, from within. That is why they are called demonic. They strive to accumulate wealth through unjust means for the gratification of their desires. The purpose of people with demonic nature is to accumulate wealth and enjoy sensual pleasures. In the dialogue between Yaksha and Yudhishthira, those five brothers—four brothers had died. Then, Yaksha was very pleased with Yudhishthira's answers and said, 'Ask for a boon.' So he said, 'Let Nakula be restored to life.' Hearing this, Yaksha was very surprised, 'Nakula? What will you do by restoring Nakula to life?' Meaning, 'If you have changed your mind, ask again.' 'You are allowed to ask again, what will you do by restoring Nakula to life? You have a war coming up in the future, if you restore Bhima to life, or restore Arjuna to life, then it would make some sense.' 'Let Nakula be restored to life.' Then Yudhishthira revealed the secret behind it, 'Nakula is the only son of my mother Madri, therefore.' 'Therefore, let Nakula be restored to life.' Why did greed not touch him? Faith in scriptures. I cannot bypass the scriptural values prescribed in the scriptures. One should not show partiality. One should not snatch away through unrighteousness. I cannot bypass that. And Ashwatthama, who was left, saw an owl killing crows. He immediately thought, 'This is a very good method. Let's kill them while they are asleep.' So he did exactly that, going to the Pandavas' camp, and his desire was indeed to kill all five Pandavas. Knowing that those five sons of theirs were sleeping, thinking they were the five Pandavas, he killed them at night. God saved the Pandavas, but he cut off the heads of these five boys and went straight to Duryodhana. Now, what did he care about values? Meaning, demonic nature. In this, 'devoted to desire and anger, indulgence in desires.' It was said so in that verse. Whatever efforts he makes, he does so to fulfill this. 'Filled with hypocrisy, pride, and arrogance,' meaning he does everything for that. Shackles of hope. Otherwise, even a devotee of God has hopes. Does anyone live without hope? It is mentioned in this, it came in this. Hope is consciousness. So is it really like that? No, not at all. But if it is a good hope, then it is consciousness. Such weak hopes are not consciousness, they are inertness and demonic nature. If there is hope or desire to please God, then it is consciousness. If there is absolutely nothing and it is zero, then as said, it is like a stone. Neither good nor bad, nothing. Let's eat, drink, and live. Eat and drink until we die. The purpose of people with demonic nature is to accumulate wealth and enjoy sensual pleasures, and to fulfill that purpose, As long as Maharaj remained on this earth, he had one after another new desires, like 'let's try this method, let's try this method, let's try this method, let more souls worship God.' Shastriji Maharaj also, until the very end, Swami kept performing one after another new rituals and plans. So there was hope, but those great men were not subservient to that hope. Like, 'let's do it as long as we are alive.' As Nayandas Swami said, 'There was no weak desire at all, but there were good desires, which I have given up today.' They are not dependent on it. In this, it is said, 'devoted to desire and anger.' Therefore, they cannot let go of it. The purpose of people with demonic nature is to accumulate wealth and enjoy sensual pleasures, and to fulfill that purpose, they seek the cooperation of hypocrisy, pride, arrogance, and desire and anger. Therefore, they resort to injustice, hypocrisy, deceit—whatever they can get their hands on—and fulfill all these desires. The words in this are very profound. 'They strive.' It is not said that they obtain it. If they are destined to get it, they will, otherwise they might not. But they make efforts. If they don't get it, that's a different matter, but they make full efforts. 'They strive for the gratification of their desires.' Not for liberation. Otherwise, effort is consciousness. Knowledge, desire, action. Knowledge, desire, and effort, striving, action—that is the nature of consciousness. And the stronger it is, the more consciousness is said to be. The dimmer it is, the less consciousness is said to be, meaning inertness has increased. But only if it is good. If it is weak, then on the contrary, it is considered even more inert. That is completely demonic nature. In this, it is said, 'holding evil convictions.' It is said, 'holding evil convictions.' So are the efforts of evil convictions more, or are the efforts of good convictions more? Are Naradaji's efforts and attempts more, or are the attempts of all these demons more? Demons, their efforts are fine, but they become desperate, and even then, if they are destined to get it, they will, otherwise nothing. Naradaji looks for an opportunity, if there is an opportunity, he strikes immediately, and then sits back chanting 'Narayana, Narayana.' The purpose of people with demonic nature is to accumulate wealth and enjoy sensual pleasures. To gain power, to enjoy wealth—such is their target. These are their weapons: 'devoted to desire and anger, through unjust means, holding evil convictions.' And to fulfill that purpose, they seek the cooperation of hypocrisy, pride, arrogance, and desire and anger. Therefore, they have to resort to injustice, theft, treachery, conspiracies, etc. Without that, their goals cannot be achieved, and therefore, they cannot resolve in their intellect to realize God, 'I want to attain God.' Verse number 13. 'This has been gained by me today; this desire I shall obtain. This wealth is mine, and this also shall be mine in the future.' 'This much I have gained today, this desire will be fulfilled, this much wealth and resources are already there, and this much also will be obtained again.' In two years this much will happen, in five years this much will happen, this much growth has occurred and this much will occur. We measure GDP, don't we? So this much growth has occurred and this much will occur, and what was that 20? 20-20. What? It was the 20-20 mission, wasn't it? 20 mission, 20-20 mission. In that, we have done the 20-20 mission, haven't we? Now we will have to do the 25 mission, as it was not completed in 20. So they will have to re-mission it. 'This has been gained by me today' and 'this I shall obtain.' 'This desire.' AI translation of the Gujarati transcript above, produced in the same pass that transcribed the audio, one English segment per Gujarati segment. Devotional and technical terms with no precise English equivalent (kirtan, satsang, vasana, samskara, and similar) are kept as their plain transliteration rather than force-translated. Not human-proofread., AI-translated, unverified · Source details