BG 17.7
Learn to distinguish between the types kinds of food, just as the threefold types of sacrifice, austerity, and charity.
यज्ञस्तपस्तथा दानं तेषां भेदमिमं श्रृणु
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āhāras — food
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tv — indeed
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api — even
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sarvasya — of all
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tri-vidho — of three kinds
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tri
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vidho
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bhavati — is
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priyaḥ — dear
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yajñas — sacrifice, worship
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tapas — austerity
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tathā — and
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dānaṁ — charity
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teṣhāṁ — of them
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bhedam — distinctions
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imaṁ — this
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śhṛiṇu — hear
Learn to distinguish between the types kinds of food, just as the threefold types of sacrifice, austerity, and charity. Food that promotes longevity, alertness, strength, health, pleasure, and happiness, and those that are sweet, savory, substantial, and agreeable, are dear to pure people. Food that is bitter, sour, salty, excessively spicy, pungent, dry, and bitter, is favored by those of a passionate nature. Such nourishment causes pain, sorrow, and disease. Food which is stale, tasteless, putrid, unclean, or left over by others, is favored by those of an ignorant nature.
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