Bhagavad Gita Chapter 7 - Jnana Vignana Yoga - Sloka 15

The entire content of this mail is from Swami Chidbhavananda's translation of The Bhagavad Gita, published by Ramakrishna Mission

Who are they who alienate themselves from Iswara? They are marked out :-
The Maya of the Three Gunas 13-15

1 Gita Sloka  every day - Chapter 7 - Jnana Vignana Yoga - Sloka 15

Dhruva ascending to heaven

Na mam dushkritinah mudhah papadyante naradhamah I

Mayaya pahratajnana asuram bhavam ashritah II sloka 15

न माम दुष्कृतिनः मूढाः प्रपध्यन्ते  नराधमाः ।

मायया पःरत ज्ञान आसुरं भावम् आश्रिताः ।। श्लोक १५

The evil doers, the deluded, the lowest of men, deprived of discrimination by Maya and following the way of the asuras, do not seek refuge in Me.

Asuras are they who delight in deceit, falsehood and torture of beings. Their ways are elaborately dealt with in Chapter 16. They stand against the worship of the divine. Practise of cruelty is their past time.

Evil deeds hide the noble traits in man and expose the base ones. the perpetrators of wickedness become progressively deluded. They are unable to discern between the divine and the unholy. They are therefore the lowest of men. The question of pursuing any good path and pulling up in ethical life does not arise in their cases. Their understanding gets completely distorted. That it is Iswara who manifests Himself as the universe, is something beyond their ken. They detest everything pertaining to the divine. The deluded have therefore no alternative to self destruction. 

The way of the sieve is to let the fine thinsg pass through and hold the coarse things to itself. Likewise the way of the wicked is to let the merits go and hold the evils fast. 

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa