Bhagavad Gita - Chapter 16 - Daivasura Sampad Vibhaga Yoga - The Yoga of Discretion

The qualities of a deva lead one to liberation, while the qualities of an asura cause bondage. Fear not, O Pandava, for you are born of the nature of a deva.

Those who are asuras by nature cannot discriminate as to what actions should be done and what actions should not be done. No purity, proper behavior or truthfulness can be found in them.

With this view, such people with depraved and small intellect flourish and engage in malicious activities for the destruction of the world.

Believing that slaking their greed and fulfilling their lusty desires is the ultimate goal of life, they undergo unlimited anxieties until the time of death. Bound by hundreds of ambitions and absorbed in lust and anger, they try to amass wealth by any unlawful means in order to satisfy their desires.