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कट्वम्ललवणात्युष्णतीक्ष्णरूक्षविदाहिनः।आहारा राजसस्येष्टा दुःखशोकामयप्रदाः।।17.9।।

kaṭv-amla-lavaṇāty-uṣhṇa- tīkṣhṇa-rūkṣha-vidāhinaḥ āhārā rājasasyeṣhṭā duḥkha-śhokāmaya-pradāḥ

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 17, Verse 9
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
The foods that are bitter, sour, salty, overly hot, pungent, dry, and burning are liked by the Rajasic and are productive of pain, grief, and disease.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: foods that are bitter, sour, salty, excessively hot, pungent, dry, and burning, causing pain, grief, and disease, are liked by those of passion, describing a more intense, harsher set of food preferences associated with the restless quality.

In life: a period of intense stress or restlessness often does shift your actual food cravings toward something harsher and more intense, worth noticing as a real, physical signal of your current internal state.

Teaching: the next time you notice a sudden craving for unusually harsh or intense food, treat that as a small but real signal worth checking against your current internal state, rather than dismissing it as unrelated to anything beyond simple appetite.

kaṭubitter
amlasour
lavaṇasalty
ati-uṣhṇavery hot
tīkṣhṇapungent
rūkṣhadry
vidāhinaḥchiliful
āhārāḥfood
rājasasyato persons in the mode of passion
iṣhṭāḥdear
duḥkhapain
śhokagrief
āmayadisease
pradāḥproduce

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

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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.