Verse 16.6

Verse 16.6: “There are two (types of) created beings in this world: the Divine as also the Demoniac. The Divine has been already stated in detail: now hear of Me the Demoniac, O Son of Pritha. (271)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

The flow of actions on the part of beings, pertaining to the two classes, the Divine and the Demoniacal Estates, is wending its course from time immemorial. The night-wanderers (viz. the ghostly orders, etc.) do their business during the night, while the human orders transact their business during the day: in that way, Oh Kiriti, the Divine and Demoniacal orders both transact their business in their own respective ways. The Divine (Estate) has been referred to earlier in detail while discoursing on knowledge etc. Now I discourse on the Demoniacal world to which do lend your attentive ear. There can neither be (musical) sound without a musical instrument, nor any fragrance without flowers: in that way the Demoniacal nature does not become perceptible by itself alone, unless it has pervaded any body-form. But when the Demoniac, once gets hold of the body of any being, it is seen ruling over it in the way the fire pervades the entire dry wood (it has consumed). It then goes on expanding as the body grows, in the way the juice of sugar-cane increases as the cane grows in its size. I tell you now, Oh Dhananjaya, the signs of beings that are possessed by the Demoniacal group of sins.