Even the demons and evil ones mentioned in the Puranas can teach us lessons. What is it we must learn from such lives? Bhagawan lovingly reminds us today.

When man fails to use his attainments for the welfare of others, he becomes a Narakasura (hellish demon). In a competitive race for individual glory, he is only condemning himself. He spends billions to get to the Moon and bring rocks from its crust, instead of feeding millions who starve down below and promoting the prosperity of backward nations. Even the best of things can be misused by men. Ravana, Shisupala, Kamsa, and other demons in the Indian puranas (ancient legends) and epics had vast scholarship, enormous economic and military power and even immense yogic and occult skills won by years of austerity, and disciplined living. But, they could not earn one skill, the skill to suppress the ego, and so, they became too obstinate, too obstructive and too dangerous to be allowed to live and prosper. The lesson taught by the careers of Naraka and of Emperor Bali is that man should be the master of his ego if he is to succeed in the art of successful living.