| 6. Weakening
all the elements in the body fools they areand Me who dwell in the body
within ; now thou these to be of demoniac resolves.Terrific: causing pain
to himself and to other living beings. Endued, etc.: This portion of the
text may also be interpreted to mean possessed of lust, passion and strength.
Elements: organs. Me: Narayana, the Witness of their thoughts and deeds.
To weaken Me is to neglect My teaching. Know thou that they are demoniac
(asuric) in their resolves, so that you may avoid them. This is a word of
advice to Arjuna.Threefold Food, Worship, Austerity and Gift. Now will be
shown what sort of foodwhich is divided into three classes, via that which
is savoury and oleaginous, and so onis dear to the Sattvic, Rajasic and
Tamasic men receptively, so that a man may know that he is one of Sattva
or of Rajas or of Tamas as indicated by his own partiality for one or another
particular class of foodsuch as the savoury and the oleaginousand then give
up the Rajasic and Tamasic food and resort to sattvic one. Similarly, the
object of the threefold division here made of sacrifice and the like according
to the sattva and other gunas is to show how a man may find out and give
up the Rajasic and Tamasic ones and resort exclusively to the Sattvic ones.
The Lord says: The food also which is dear to each is threefold, as also
worship austerity and gift, Do thou hear of this, their distinction. Each:
Every living being that eats: This: that which is going to be described.
Their: of food (ahara); etc. The three kinds of Food. |
