न मां दुष्कृतिनो मूढाः प्रपद्यन्ते नराधमाः ।माययापहृतज्ञाना आसुरं भावमाश्रिताः ॥
na māṃ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ prapadyante narādhamāḥ |māyayāpahṛtajñānā āsuraṃ bhāvamāśritāḥ ||
Evildoers, the deluded and the lowest of people, do not turn to me. Their knowledge is carried off by maya, and they hold to a demonic nature.
Explanation
Krishna has just said that his divine illusion (māyā) is hard to cross, and only those who take refuge in him get across. Here he describes who does not do so: people who do wrong, are deluded, and whose discernment has been stolen by māyā, so they lean on a demonic (āsura) outlook, meaning one driven by ego and appetite. Commentators differ on whether these are fixed types of people or tendencies anyone can have and change.