🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 17.9

17.9 कट्वम्ललवणात्युष्णतीक्ष्णरूक्षविदाहिनः those that are bitter? sour saline? excessively hot? pungent? dry and burning? आहाराः foods? राजसस्य of the Rajasic? इष्टाः are liked? दुःखशोकामयप्रदाः are productive of pain? grief and disease.Commentary Excessively This alification should be taken to apply to each of the seven alities -- thus? excessively saline? and so on.Food of a passionate nature produces restlessness in the mind? evil thoughts? excitement? craving now for one thing and then for another? pain? trouble and disease. The Rajasic man always plans to prepare various kinds of preparations to satisfy his palate. He takes salt? chillies? mustard? cloves? condiments? pungent pickles? etc.? in excess. Tears flow from his eyes and water dribbles from his nose and yet he will not leave the hot and pungent articles. The palate remains unsatisfied until the stomach is completely filled with pungent things? till the tongue is burnt with chillies. Ladysfinger? Puri? Kachori? pungent condiments? meat? fish? eggs? sweets? potato? fried bread? curd? brinjal? carrots? blackgram? onions? garlic? lemon? Masur? tea? coffee? betels? tobacco are Rajasic artciles of food.

17.9 Foods that are katu-amla-lavana-atyusna-tiksna-ruksa-vidahinah, bitter, sour, salty, very hot (-'very' is to be connected with all, viz bitter etc.; that is very bitter, very sour, and so on-), pungent, dry [Without fat.] and burning; and duhkha-soka-amaya-pradah, which produce pain, sorrow and disease; [Pain, immediate suffering; sorrow, grief arising from not having that desired food.] are rajasasyaistah, dear to one having rajas.

17.9 The foods that are bitter, sour, very salty, over-hot, very pungent, dry and burning, are those that they the taste (Rasa) of bitterness and sourness, that are inordinately salty, hot, pungent, and that are dry and burning. Pungent foods are those which are unsuitable and difficult to be taken by others because of their being ver cold, ver hot etc. Dry things are those which cause the feeling of dryness in the eater. Burning foods are those which cause burning sensation. Foods of this kind are relished by men of Rajasik nature. They promote pain, sorrow and disease.

17.9 See Comment under 17.10

।।17.9।। क्रियाशील तथा कामक्रोधादि प्रवृत्ति वाले रजोगुणी लोगों को इस श्लोक में कथित कटु अम्ल आदि आहार अत्यन्त प्रिय होता है। ऐसे आहार से वह अपने शरीर में शाक्ति का अनुभव तो करता है? परन्तु अन्तत इन सबका परिणाम दुख रोग और चिन्ता ही होता है। इस प्रकार के आहार की रुचि उत्पन्न हो जाने पर उसे संयमित रखना दुष्कर हो जाता है।प्रस्तुत प्रकरण से कोई अध्येता यह न समझ ले कि केवल आहार के परिवर्तन और संयम से ही विचारों का परिवर्तन संभव हो सकता है। भगवान् श्रीकृष्ण का कथन यह है कि सात्त्विक या राजसिक विचारों के लोगों को उपर्युक्त प्रकार के पदार्थ रुचिकर लगते हैं। अर्थात् विचारों के परिवर्तन से आहार में परिवर्तन आता है।