Bhagavad Gita 16.7
प्रवृत्तिं च निवृत्तिं च जना न विदुरासुराः । न शौचं नापि चाचारो न सत्यं तेषु विद्यते ॥
pravṛttiṁ ca nivṛttiṁ ca janā na vidur āsurāḥ na śaucaṁ nāpi cācāro na satyaṁ teṣu vidyate
Translation
The demonic know neither right action nor abstinence from action. Neither purity, nor good conduct, nor truth is found in them.
Reflection
Where today did you engage when stepping back was wiser, or step back when engagement was owed?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Sixteen
Asuri ignorance is not mere lack of facts. It is loss of pravritti and nivritti, the knowing of when to engage and when to step back. Both moves are required for a coherent life. Engagement without nivritti consumes the self. Withdrawal without pravritti hollows duty. The asuri being has lost the rhythm between them and so swings between greedy push and sullen retreat without compass. Add the next loss: shaucha, achara, satya. No purity, no good conduct, no truth. The structure that holds a human upright is gone. What remains is reactive matter. The verse is sober diagnosis, not insult. A person can drift into this state by neglect of practice. Catching the drift early is what the daiva roster is for.