Chapter 17, Slok 8
🗣 Speaker: zrIbhagavAnBG 17.8
Original Verse
AyuHsattvabalArogyasukhaprItivivardhanAH | rasyAH snigdhAH sthirA hRdyA AhArAH sAttvikapriyAH ||17-8||
Transliteration
āyuḥsattvabalārogyasukhaprītivivardhanāḥ . rasyāḥ snigdhāḥ sthirā hṛdyā āhārāḥ sāttvikapriyāḥ ||17-8||
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Swami Adidevananda
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Translation
17.8 Foods which promote longevity, intellectual alertness, strength, health, pleasure and happiness and those that are sweet, oil, substantial and agreeable, are dear to Sattvika men.