Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 18

Sanskrit:

त्रिविधाकृतयस्तस्य राक्षसा असुरा: सुरा: ।गुणिन्या मायया सृष्टा: सत्त्वं तत्तीर्थसाधनम् ॥ १८ ॥

ITRANS:

tri-vidhākṛtayas tasyarākṣasā asurāḥ surāḥguṇinyā māyayā sṛṣṭāḥsattvaṁ tat tīrtha-sādhanam

Translation:

The Lord expands into three kinds of manifest beings — the Rākṣasas, the demons and the demigods — all of whom are created by the Lord’s material energy and conditioned by her modes. But among these three modes, it is the mode of goodness which is the means of attaining life’s final success.

Purport:

In Kṛṣṇa Śrīla Prabhupāda writes: “There are different kinds of people existing in the modes of material nature. Those who are in the mode of ignorance are called rākṣasas, those in the mode of passion are called asuras [demons], and those in the mode of goodness are called suras, or demigods. Under the direction of the Supreme Lord, these three classes of men are created by material nature, but those who are in the mode of goodness have a greater chance to be elevated to the spiritual world, back home, back to Godhead.”