Commentary on the Bhagavadgita : 43 - Swami Krishnananda.
================================================================ ================================================================ Sunday, July 03, 2022. 19:30.AM Discourse 46: The Seventeenth Chapter Begins – The Threefold Character of Faith : 3. POST-43. ============================================================== A rajasic diet is irritating, biting, burning, and very harsh in its action on the system. It causes a burning sensation at the time of eating it, and it affects the stomach, and it may even create a stomach ulcer. These diets are very much desired by people who are rajasic in their nature. But tamasic people want another kind of food. They do not want freshly cooked food; they only want yesterday's food. “You have brought food that was cooked today. No, I can't take it. I want food that was cooked yesterday.” They would rather have leftovers from yesterday than freshly cooked food. Yātayāmaṁ (17.10) refers not to food cooked yesterday but to food that has...