Krishna draws two natures side by side, starkly, without softening either. The divine inheritance: fearlessness, a clean heart, steadiness in knowing, giving, restraint, truthfulness, non-harm, freedom from anger, letting go, calm, no slander, kindness to creatures, gentleness, modesty, patience, purity. The dark inheritance: pretence, arrogance, conceit, anger, harshness, ignorance. The divine frees. The dark binds. Then Krishna turns his full attention to the dark. These are people who cannot tell right action from wrong. They insist the world has no truth, no ground, no lord, nothing but appetite behind it. Gripping that view, they rise as cruel doers, enemies of the world. They are tied by a hundred ropes of hope, ruled by craving and anger, piling up wealth by any means for pleasure. The inner monologue Krishna voices is precise: today I won this, tomorrow I will take that; that enemy I have destroyed, the rest will follow; I am the master here, accomplished, powerful, happy. It is the voice of someone whose sense of self depends entirely on getting and winning. Drunk on money and status, they make offerings for show, not in spirit. Krishna names three gates that open onto ruin: craving, anger, and greed. Abandon all three, and you can finally work your own good. The chapter does not describe a type of person that exists somewhere else. It describes a set of tendencies that lives, to some degree, in everyone. The honest reading is not to sort the world into divine and dark people, but to notice which voice is speaking in you at any given hour, and to choose.