“All the great teachers in India have taken the battle in the Gita to be an internal one - between asuric [demonic] and daivic [divine] tendencies in the same person, between pravritti [outward, centrifugal] forces and nivritti [inward, centripetal] forces. The battle is for our entire psychosomatic complex, the whole miniaturised kingdom of Prakriti [nature, materiality] by either the daivic tendencies or the asuric ones.”

-Ravi Ravindra