 In the Puranas and the Itihasas with the embedded Bhagavad Gita, the Devas represent the good, and the Asuras the bad.According to the Bhagavad Gita (16.6-16.7), all beings in the universe have both the divine qualities ("daivi sampad") and the demonic qualities ("asuri sampad") within each.The sixteenth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita states that pure god-like saints are rare and pure demon-like evil are rare among human beings, and the bulk of humanity is multi-charactered with a few or many faults.