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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 : Nārāyaṇa, 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 food—which is divided into three classes, viz., that which is savoury and oleaginous, and so on—is dear to the Sattvic, Rajasic and Tamasic men respectively, 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 food—such as the savoury and the oleaginous—and 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: