You are Demon If...(16.4-16.7)
What is demonic nature? Kṛṣṇa says that all actions done out of arrogance, pride, ego, for name and fame, for power, are demonic in nature. Whatever we do, whether we study the scriptures, do charity or social service, or perform pūjā (prayer), rituals or meditation, if they are done to strengthen the 'I' and 'mine', they always lead to suffering.
Focusing on the 'I' is instinctive. It is a call for survival based on our conditioning and insecurities. The instinct to survive is what is called 'I', and the instinct to possess is what is referred to as 'mine'. The person who understands that both are illusions is a complete person.
As long as you act, speak and think centered on 'me, me, me', you will be a demon; you will work out of the instinct for survival and possession. When you work based on the space of 'You, you, you,' you will radiate a new energy, the energy of enriching.
Try this simple experiment: Try living for others' sake out of gratitude for just one week. Live with the new root-cognition of 'You'. I am not asking you to give away your property or any such thing.
Please catch this principle of root cognition. Basically, what you strongly believe as you is root cognition. We live all our life with this 'āsuri sampat,' what Kṛṣṇa calls demonic nature, the inauthentic attitude of 'me, me, me'. Give a chance to be centered on the root cognition of 'You'. Now, for just one week, put that 'You' into your being. You will not know from where the bliss suddenly comes! You will feel that your whole being is relaxed. When you don't give attention to 'me', you will never be 'in tension'.
Understand, completing with the root cognition is completing with self-doubt. When you replace your root cognition of 'me' with 'You', a deep inner healing, a deep completion happens in you.
Work based on this single statement: instead of deciding based on the default root cognition of 'me, me, me', decide based on the new root cognition of 'You, You, You'. You will become a hollow bamboo, a flute in the hands of the Divine. Whatever happens through you will be Divine; you will imbibe the Divine nature.
Kṛṣṇa further explains how to imbibe Divine nature. Here, He gives the straight, subtle technique to replace the 'I' with 'You'; to experience the consciousness of 'You', the consciousness of Whole, daivika saṁpat or divine nature of your being.
First, you need to find out if your thinking is acting as Divine inside you or as a demon inside you. Sometimes, many of you are possessed by a ghost. What is that ghost? 'me, me, me'.
Next, enrich others from the space of 'You', which will naturally make you express these divine qualities in life. Enriching will be just your lifestyle. You will understand that enriching the 'You' enriches the 'I' back. Experientially you will understand that 'you' is one with others, others are one with 'you'. Automatically you will become blissful, free from anger and full of dhārmic (righteous) qualities.
Many stories illustrate how the 'I' drives the Divine away, and the 'you' attracts the Divine. One small shift in our inner space, can take care of the cognitive shift. How we are centered and where our inner space is focused is what makes our life demonic or divine.