We have been talking about many manifestation of āsura’s behaviour. Next, Lord Krsna summed up for us that there are three things to be taken care of in order to avoid all these āsurīsampat.
trividhaṁ narakasyedaṁ dvāraṁ nāśanamātmanaḥ | kāmaḥ krodhastathā lobhaḥ tasmādetattrayaṁ tyajet ||16.21||
This doorway to painful experience, that destroys a person, is three-fold - desire, ang er, and greed. Therefore, one should give up this triad.
Naraka doesn’t not just mean hell, but any other experience of pain. One can enter through any of these doors - dvāra, namely kāmaḥ - desire, krodhaḥ - anger and lobhaḥ - greed. They are the destroyer of a person - nāśanam ātmanaḥ. One is destroyed in the sense that his mind is held hostage by them and he is no longer fit for any purusārtha - goals of life, leave alone moksa.
The desire we are talking about here is not natural desires which move the entire transaction world such as eating, sleeping, to be healthy and happy.
Kāma here is binding desire which makes one enter into the trap of these triad. Once kāma is there, anger and greed will follow. A desire is binding if its non-fulfilment will make one angry or any other mental torment like depression and smallness. If the fulfilment is gained by crossing the ways of dharma, that desire itself becomes greed. Even when the desire is fulfilled how long would the happiness last since greed is coming on the way?
No body wants to get destroyed, therefore one should give up these three - tasmādetattrayaṁ tyajet. If one can manage these, the rest of āsurī-sampat will be taken care of. The description of āsurī-sampat is given is such detail here that it may seem overwhelming, and therefore Lord Krsna reduces the whole thing to desire, anger and greed. Even these three can be reduced to kāmā alone since in the final analysis, it is the root of all misery.
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