The materialists.
द्वौ भूतसर्गौ लोकेऽस्मिन्दैव आसुर एव च ।
दैवो विस्तरशः प्रोक्त आसुरं पार्थ मे शृणु ॥ ६ ॥
dvau bhūtasargau loke’smindaiva āsura eva ca .
daivo vistaraśaḥ prokta āsuraṃ pārtha me śṛṇu .. 6 ..
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Creation means what is created. The men who are created with the two kinds of nature, the divine and the demoniac, are here spoken of as the ’two creations.’ It is said in the sruti,
‘Verily there are two classes of Prajāpati’s creatures, Devas and Asuras.’ (Bri. Up. 1-3-1).
Every being in this world is included in the one or the other of the two creations, the divine and the demoniac. The purpose of repeating again what has been already said is stated thus:—The divine has been declared at length, beginning with xvi. 1, but not the demoniac; therefore, do thou hear and understand the demoniac nature to be described at length by Me in the sequel here in order that you may avoid it.
The demoniac nature will be described,—to the very end of the discourse—as an attribute of some living men; for, only when it is recognised in the visible, its avoidance is possible.