Sanskrit
द्वौ भूतसर्गौ लोकेऽस्मिन्दैव आसुर एव च । दैवो विस्तरशः प्रोक्त आसुरं पार्थ मे शृणु ॥
dvau bhūtasargau loke 'smin daiva āsura eva ca daivo vistaraśaḥ prokta āsuraṃ pārtha me śṛṇu
Translation
Twofold is the animal creation in this world, the divine and the demoniacal: the divine hath been described at length: hear from Me, O Pârtha, the demoniacal.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
This verse is the chapter’s structural pivot: Krishna names the twofold “bhūta sarga” (creation of beings) in this world — divine and demonic — and explicitly signals that he has just finished the divine description and is about to turn to the demonic. That kind of self-aware roadmapping is unusual in the Gita’s more oracular chapters and gives Chapter 16 an almost textbook-like organization compared to, say, Chapter 15’s tree imagery. The binary framing itself is worth noting: unlike Chapter 14’s three guṇas, which mix and shift, this chapter sorts beings into exactly two camps, which is part of why its harsher verses later on read more like moral typology than a description of shifting psychological states.