Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 16: The Divine and the Demonic Natures

Bhagavad Gita 16.14

asau mayā hataḥ śatrurhaniṣye cāparānapi | īśvaro'hamahaṃ bhogī siddho'haṃ balavānsukhī ||

"That enemy I have killed, and I shall kill the others too. I am the lord, I am the enjoyer; I am successful, powerful, and happy."

Modern context

'I am the lord, I am the enjoyer, I am successful, powerful and happy.' The demonic voice puts itself at the centre of everything. It claims for itself what belongs only to the divine: lordship, enjoyment, power. It is a picture of an ego that has swollen to fill the whole world. And notice: it says 'I am happy', but everything else in the passage shows that it is not.