Shloka 17.8“Foods that promote life, vitality, strength, health, joy, and cheerfulness, savory, mild, substantial, agreeable, are dear to the sattvic.”…
Shloka 17.7“The food each prefers is also threefold, as are sacrifice, austerity, and charity; hear their distinctions.” Key Teaching: Food,…
Shloka 17.6“They, weakening the body’s elements, also torment Me, the dweller in the body; know them as demonic in resolve.”…
Shloka 17.5“Those who perform severe austerities not enjoined by scriptures, driven by hypocrisy and ego, impelled by desire and passion.”…
Shloka 17.4“Sattvic men worship gods, rajasic worship yakshas and rakshasas, tamasic worship ghosts and spirits.” Key Teaching: Worship reflects faith’s…
Shloka 17.3“The faith of each is according to his nature, O Bharata; man is made of faith; as his faith…
Shloka 17.2“The Blessed Lord said: Threefold is the faith of embodied beings, born of their nature: sattvic, rajasic, tamasic; hear…
Shloka 17.1“Arjuna said: Those who discard scriptures but worship with faith, what is their condition, O Krishna? Sattva, rajas, or…