Chapter 17 verse 9
“Food that is too bitter, sour, salty, hot, pungent, dry, and full of chilies is dear to persons in the mode of passion. Such food produces pain, grief, and disease.”
Adi
Shankara in his sadhana panchakam recommends treating hunger as a disease and
treating it with just enough food to treat that disease. Everything in
moderation is recommended so overly bitter, sour, hot, salty, pungent or dry
food is not recommended and if consumed regularly enhances the passion sense of
rajas in our psyche. Bhagwan says that this kind of food is not ideal and
causes physical and mental pain, disease and suffering eventually. I will also
add oily food or anything which stokes desire for either the food or other
desires in our system. It is a great wakeup call in this verse for us.
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