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Nothing is excluded, eveything has a place in the big scheme of things - this is uniquely characteristic of Hinduism.  Even the skills of the demon can be put to good use by the godly in nature, as were the skills of the titan Mayasura by Sri Krishna and Arjuna, recounted in a translation by Sri Aurobindo:


The Titan, "yet in me a fire has burned
Some deed to do for love's sake. He am I,
The Titan architect and poet high,

The maker: something give me to create."
Urjuun replied, "If from the grasp of Fate
Rescued by me thou pray'st, then is the deed
Sufficient, Titan: I will take no meed.

Yet will I not deny thee: for my friend
Do somewhat and thy debt to
me shall end."


Then by the Titan questioned Vaasudave
Pondered a while what boon were best to have.
At length he answered: "Let a hall be raised
Peerless, thou great artificer highpraised,—
If thou wilt needs do somewhat high designed,—
For Yudishthere such hall as may thy mind
Imagine. Wonderful the pile shall be,
No mortal man shall copy although he
Labour to grasp it, nor on transient earth
Another equal wonder shall have birth.
Vast let it be. Let human and divine
And the Titanic meet in one design.
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