आसुरी सम्पत्
Asuri Sampat
Demonic qualities that lead to bondage
📜Understanding Asuri Sampat
Asuri Sampat means "demonic wealth" or "demonic qualities." Chapter 16 of the Bhagavad Gita contrasts the divine nature with six primary qualities that characterize the asuric (demonic) nature: hypocrisy (dambha), arrogance (darpa), excessive pride (abhimana), anger (krodha), harshness (parushya), and ignorance (ajnana).
🕉️Related Shlokas(15)
Gita 2.50
→Bhagavad Gita • Chapter 2
Yoga is skill in action—not clever manipulation for profit, but the artistry of acting so wisely that you transcend both good and bad karma, becoming free in this very life.
Gita 3.6
→Bhagavad Gita • Chapter 3
Restraining your hands while your mind runs wild is not spirituality—it is hypocrisy. True renunciation happens inside, not outside.
Gita 16.15
→Bhagavad Gita • Chapter 16
Drunk on wealth and lineage, the demoniac boasts 'Who is my equal?' and performs sacrifice and charity not from devotion but from delusion, seeking social prestige rather than spiritual merit.
📖Related Stories(15)
Trijata - The Prophetic Demoness
→Ramayana
Vibhishanas daughter Trijata protected Sita in Lanka despite family opposition. She had prophetic visions of Ramas victory and comforted Sita through her captivity.
Hanuman and Arjuna's Flag - Pride Humbled by Devotion (Bhakti Yoga)
→Mahabharata - Popular Tradition
Arjuna boasts he could have built Rama's bridge with arrows. A small monkey collapses every bridge Arjuna builds, then reveals himself as Hanuman. The lesson: Rama's bridge held through devotion, not engineering. Skill without devotion has no strength. Hanuman promises to ride Arjuna's flag in the coming war—adding divine support to the instrument.
💬Related Dialogues(14)
Krishna and Narada - On Divine Playfulness
→Krishna & Narada
Divine play (lila) is not cruelty but engagement. God prefers relationship to worship, love to ritual. Some truths must be lived rather than explained. The journey itself—with all its suffering—is the point.
Prahlad and Hiranyakashipu - The Son Who Defied His Father
→Prahlad & Hiranyakashipu
Faith that cannot be shaken survives what logic cannot explain. Pride that demands worship becomes its own destruction. The divine cannot be defeated because it exists even in those who deny it.