Mahabharata reference

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> Dear devotees,

>

> "The Mahabharata describes what God does when He wishes to protect

> somebody or to destroy him. All He does is to pervert his mind (budhi),

> leads him astray so that he himself takes to a path that leads him to

> destruction. A perverted mind faces annihilation."

>

> - From article "It's the mind that leads to spirituality" in

> economictimes.indiatimes.com

>

> Can anybody confirm or deny this, with reference?

>

> Thank you

>

> HZ

 

I would not say the Krsna decides to pervert someone's mind. Krsna wants

everyone to come back to Him. But, when a soul wants to go astray---

 

Those who are envious and mischievous, who are the lowest among men, I

perpetually cast into the ocean of material existence, into various demoniac

species of life.

PURPORT

In this verse it is clearly indicated that the placing of a particular

individual soul in a particular body is the prerogative of the supreme will.

The demoniac person may not agree to accept the supremacy of the Lord, and

it is a fact that he may act according to his own whims, but his next birth

will depend upon the decision of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and not

on himself. In the Srimad-Bhagavatam, Third Canto, it is stated that an

individual soul, after his death, is put into the womb of a mother where he

gets a particular type of body under the supervision of superior power.

Therefore in the material existence we find so many species of life --

animals, insects, men, and so on. All are arranged by the superior power.

They are not accidental. As for the demoniac, it is clearly said here that

they are perpetually put into the wombs of demons, and thus they continue to

be envious, the lowest of mankind. Such demoniac species of men are held to

be always full of lust, always violent and hateful and always unclean. The

many kinds of hunters in the jungle are considered to belong to the demoniac

species of life.

Bg 16.20

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Bg 16.20