Who were the gods and demons?

In the tales of ancient India, you must have heard about two races: the Sura and the Asura. If we study the Bhagavad Gita, the situation becomes clear. The irony is that we have stopped reading our own scriptures.
The 16th chapter of the Gita explains in detail the “tendencies” of the gods and demons. So let’s first understand what demonic tendencies are. Read them yourself and evaluate them for yourself.
In the 16th chapter of the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna says,

1. Those who speak impure and untruthful words – “People with demonic nature do not understand either action or action. Therefore, they possess neither external nor internal purity. They neither behave virtuously nor speak the truth.” (16/7)

2. Denies the existence of God – “People with demonic nature say that the world is without support, completely unreal, and has arisen spontaneously without God, simply through the union of man and woman. Therefore, lust is the only cause of it.” (16/8)

“By accepting this false knowledge, those people whose nature has been destroyed and whose intellect is dull, those cruel people who harm everyone, are capable only of destroying the world.” (16/9)

3. They are filled with pride – “Those men, filled with conceit, pride, and arrogance, wander about the world, harboring unfulfillable desires, adopting false principles out of ignorance, and adopting corrupt practices.” (16/10)

4. Engrossed in pleasures and worries – “They are those who take shelter of countless worries that last until death, and are eager to enjoy sensual pleasures.” (16/11)

5. They accumulate wealth unjustly – “Those men, bound by hundreds of mental disorders of hope, under the influence of lust and anger, try to accumulate wealth and other things unjustly for sensual pleasures.” (16/12)

6. Hatred of others – “I killed that enemy, and I will kill those other enemies as well. I am God, the enjoyer of opulence. I possess all the powers, am powerful, and am happy. Those who hold such beliefs are demons.” (16/13)

7. They are arrogant – “I am very rich and belong to a big family or organization. Who else is like me?” Thus, the demons, deluded by ignorance and having a mind bewildered in many ways, bound in the net of delusion and engrossed in worldly pleasures, fall into the great impure hell. (16/14-15)

8. They are hypocrites – those arrogant men who consider themselves superior, intoxicated with wealth and honour, perform yagnas in name only and hypocritically perform yagnas contrary to the scriptures. (16/17)

9. Demons become demons again and again – “Those hateful, sinful and cruel wretches I repeatedly cast into demonic births in this world.” (16/19)

“O Arjuna, those fools, not attaining Me, attain the demonic form in every birth, that is, they remain in hell.” (16/20)

(Our tamasic tendencies are called asuras, while our sattvic tendencies are suras (gods). This means that our tendencies themselves are suras and asuras. Learn which tendencies make us asuras! Always remember that when the demon’s virtues are exhausted, he goes to hell after death.)