There are two creations of beings, two kinds of creation of men: beings, being created, joined with the two endowments, the divine and the asuric, are called the two creations of beings, by the scripture 'twofold indeed were the creatures of Prajāpati, the gods and the asuras' (Bṛhadāraṇyaka 1.3.1). This is so in this world, in this transmigration, since the twofold division is tenable for all. Which are those two creations? In Nature itself, the divine and the asuric. He gives the purpose of restating these two already told: the divine creation of beings has been told at length, by 'fearlessness, purity of being' (Gītā 16.1) and the rest, but the asuric not at length; so, for the sake of its avoidance, hear the asuric, told at length by My word, O Pārtha; grasp it. Up to the end of the chapter the asuric endowment is shown as a qualification of particular creatures, and, by being made present to view, it can be avoided.

In this world of action there are two creations, of two kinds, of the beings that do action, the divine and the demonic. 'Creation' is origination; by the sway of earlier karma, in the form of merit and demerit, beings are born, at the very time of their origination, divided, for the carrying out of the following of the Blessed One's command and for the carrying out of its contrary. This is the meaning. Of these the divine creation has been told at length: the origination of the gods, whose nature is to follow My command, was told, with the conduct it is for; that conduct, of the form of the discipline of action, the discipline of knowledge, and the discipline of devotion, was told at length. And the demonic creation too has a conduct it is for; hear that conduct from Me, hear it from My presence.

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

Madhvacharya does not comment on this verse.