Shloka 17.14“Worship of gods, Brahmins, gurus, and the wise; purity, uprightness, celibacy, nonviolence—these are bodily austerity.” Key Teaching: Bodily austerity…
Shloka 17.13“Sacrifice without scriptural rules, without mantras, offerings, faith, or proper rites is tamasic.” Key Teaching: Tamasic sacrifice lacks scriptural…
Shloka 17.12“Sacrifice performed for show or with desire for reward, O Bharata, know that to be rajasic.” Key Teaching: Rajasic…
Shloka 17.11“Sacrifice performed according to scriptures, with a focused mind, without desire for reward, is sattvic.” Key Teaching: Sattvic sacrifice…
Shloka 17.10“Food that is stale, tasteless, putrid, rotten, impure, or others’ leftovers is dear to the tamasic.” Key Teaching: Tamasic…
Shloka 17.9“Foods that are bitter, sour, salty, hot, pungent, dry, burning, causing pain, grief, and disease, are dear to the…
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.”…