Hypocrisy, arrogance, self-conceit, anger, harshness, and ignorance, O Partha, belong to one who is born with an asuric nature. Now, he describes the asuric nature. O Partha! Hypocrisy, false pride, arrogance, anger, harshness, and ignorance—all these vices are found in people of asuric nature. Dambha: Performing religious rituals to project a religious image. Not having righteousness in one's heart, but to gain fame and benefits of righteousness, showing oneself as religious in society or striving for it, is called dambha. Not having it and having to show it is called dramatic. Doing theatricality, that, brother, I am very... like Duryodhana used to do drama that, "I perform many yagnas." "I give a lot of charity to Brahmins." In reality, the charity that Karna used to give was also dramatic. It was not his inner intention. He did that to defeat Arjuna. He had taken an asuric vow. He had taken a vow that, "Until I kill Arjuna, these are my three rules." "I will not let anyone worship my feet." Not letting feet be worshipped is considered a good thing. That is a quality of daivi sampatti. Not letting one's feet be worshipped. That is indeed a quality of daivi sampatti. Yet Karna took such a vow. "And whoever asks anything of me, I will give it in charity." But until when? "Until I kill Arjuna." "This is my vow." So that was an asuric vow. The vow itself was good. Even asuras, if they take a vow, they take one that brings some prestige in society. They wouldn't take a vow that brings disrepute in society. So even asuras have to care about society. So they have to perform a drama that pleases society. That is, when it is not there, they have to do drama, so it is called dambha. How do we know if someone is practicing dambha? If we stay with them for a long time. For a long time. Over a long time, internally, they would like weak people, they would keep relations with the weak. They would show goodness just to take benefit from society. Since it is not inside, they get exposed sometime. When they stay together for a long time, when results come, they get exposed. When they are insulted, they get exposed. If they just give charity but do not have that bad intention of troubling anyone or the like. That is, if they give charity only for prestige, is that called an asuric bhava or not? Just for their own respect. If they give charity for prestige, they are not called an asura. If they give charity for prestige, that is called prakrut (worldly). They cannot be called an asura. An asura is one whose activities are done only to pull down others, and especially the devotees of God. Here, if they practice dambha, the meaning of dambha, especially based on this chapter, is that they do drama to pull down other devotees of God. They do drama for no reason. And they do drama to pull down the devotees of God. So the dambha mentioned here is doing drama to pull down the devotees of God. For this reason, because this is the chapter on asuric and daivi natures. Otherwise, if it is ordinary dambha, it is called prakrutik, meaning he does it because he wants to gain something of this world. But just because he wants to gain something of this world, he does not become asuric by that alone. Because he keeps such attitude towards the devotees of God, he becomes asuric. So these are the qualities of asuric sampatti. He is interested in pulling down the devotee of God by any means. To show him as inferior, to ensure his goodness is not seen, that is his interest. If he has to practice dambha for this, then it is called a quality of asuric sampatti. Otherwise, it is called prakrut. It can never be called daivi. In daivi, it would not exist at all. It is either prakrutata or asuric bhava. That. Dambha: Performing religious rituals to project a religious image. If it is not a religious field, people still practice dambha there too. In ordinary life transactions, they still practice dambha. So if they practice dambha, the quality of dambha belongs to asuric sampatti. But he himself is not an asura. He is not an asura because he is not doing it by targeting the devotees of God. Especially, they used to do it by targeting the devotees of God. The Kauravas did whatever they did by targeting the Pandavas, so they got the asuric bhava. Not having righteousness in one's heart, but to gain fame and benefits of righteousness, showing oneself as religious in society or striving for it, is called dambha. There is a desire for fame and benefit. So the benefit of fame, if someone else is taking it, he cannot tolerate it. And to get that fame, such basic values are not in him. So he has to show basic values dramatically. What is not there, he has to show artificially. So that is called dambha. To well cover the unrighteousness within oneself is called deceit. That is called deceit. If there is weakness in oneself and other people might see it, so keeping it covered by any means. If one wants to cover it, what must be done? One has to do drama of good actions. That good actions. So that deceit is not seen. He suppresses it. Then when free time comes, he is bound to practice it. But when all these are present, when a group is gathered, then keep it well covered. And when free time comes, practice it. The unrighteousness within oneself... dambha and deceit are like two sides of the same coin. So if one does one, they almost have to do the other, mostly. To well cover the unrighteousness within oneself is called deceit. Covering it well from above and appearing wise is called deceit. Showing artificially what good thing is not in the heart is dambha. While not letting the weak and improper things lying within oneself be seen is called deceitful behavior. And in between them comes fraud. That is, to deceive someone. Cheating. Now, one has to deceive someone. When one practices dambha and deceit, automatically someone else gets deceived. In that, there is a target to deceive. No one practices dambha for no reason. Why do they practice dambha? To get some benefit. To deceive the person opposite. So to deceive and take benefit, it is like that. It is called cheating. So this is called a whole bunch. Dambha, deceit, fraud. Outside, so that this institution or God does not look weak, they hide their weakness. So is that called asuric? It cannot be called asuric, but the quality is called asuric. Because hiding is just it does not mean that if one has weakness, it must be made public in society. The scriptures say that if some mistake has been committed by us, then if it has not been made public in society, then do its secret atonement. If it has been made public, then do public atonement. It is said so. So the scriptures do not intend that one should spread one's weakness in society. To let someone know who does not know. No one is like that. The scriptures also say that if some sin has been committed by us, then do its secret atonement. Then if no one knows, if some insect died by us and no one knows about it, only we know, then we should do its atonement. So because we covered it and did not make a public scene, it cannot be said that we practiced deceit. These two things are like two sides of the same coin. When one comes, one has to take the support of the other. Even if one is less virtuous, showing oneself as highly virtuous or stable is also called dambha. Darpa: The name of arrogance is darpa. Krutyakrutya aviveka karah vishayanubhava nimitto harshah darpah. Joy caused by sensory experiences. "I have such a car." "I have such a bungalow." "We have all grand luxury." The outburst of comfort, that is called darpa. Then suppressing it, suppose we are well-off, we have a very good mobile, then where it is not to be shown, we keep it hidden. But then if there are friends, we tell them. And some prestige is gained. So that is called darpa. It is called darpa born of sensory pleasure. And arrogance, what is the difference between arrogance and darpa? This is based on material objects and that is based on qualities. That arrogance is based on qualities. And darpa is based on enjoyments. "No one has such things. No one has such things." "Only we have it." So that is called darpa. And "no one has qualities like mine," then it is called arrogance. Dambho darpo'bhimanashcha, all are mentioned together. Darpa: The name of arrogance is darpa. Krutyakrutya aviveka karah vishayanubhava nimitto harshah darpah. So that joy, does not let discrimination remain. What should I do now and what should I not do. So it does not let discrimination remain, so it is called darpa. Which is the cause of violating scriptural boundaries and violating the boundaries of gurus and elders. There is also joy from the darshan darshan Seeing. To see with admiration and devotion. To see Bhagvãn, a sat-purush, and murtis, with inner or outer vision, with the intention of receiving their grace and blessings. By doing darshan properly a bhakta develops affection for Bhagvãn, and Bhagvãn develops affection for that bhakta. [Sãrangpur – 2]. Tap to open in glossary → Guru Guru A teacher. He will guide you on the path of kalyãn. Tap to open in glossary → If it is our property, then it is called darpa. If we have all the luxuries of a sadhu ashram ashram 1) Stage of life. There are four ãshrams in total, each with their duties and responsibilities – brahm-chãrya, grahastha, vãnprasth, and sannyãs. 2) Hermitage. Place where tyãgis live. Tap to open in glossary → then that is indeed called darpa. If one feels it, then it is called darpa. For example, "I have so much wealth, my family is so big, I have so much power, so many people stand behind me, so many people accept challenges at my single voice, no one can equal me in wealth and property," etc., believing oneself to be superior to others due to these is all darpa. All these are mostly for householders. It cannot be said much for sadhus again. We fall into that, don't we? So it cannot be said much. But it belongs to this world. And if we walk high in that, then it is called darpa. We have so many institutions, so we are said to have darpa. If we believe we did a better festival than everyone, then it is darpa. All those are called darpa. Whatever is worldly, all those are called darpa. In common, if some object is better than everyone else's with everyone, then is that called darpa? In common? In common itself, everyone has that good thing. It has been given to everyone, that come on, to everyone an X mobile is given. So is it considered good, is that what you are saying? How much effect it has on us, that is called darpa. The material object is not darpa. How much does it affect our mind? To the mind, that... what do they call it? Agitated. Agitation happens when it is not obtained. This Elated. More than elated, it makes one break boundaries. How much does it make one break boundaries? It is said so, it breaks boundaries. So discrimination does not remain. Because "I have this," a person loses discrimination. So how much this material object makes us forget discrimination, based on that is darpa. Darpa is not based on having the material object. 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. 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