Arjuna said:
Those who setting aside the ordinances of the scriptures, perform sacrifice with faith.what faith is theirs? Is it Sattva or Rajas or Tamas (Is it purity or passion or darkness)?
The Blessed Lord said:
Threefold is the faith of the embodied, which is inherent in their nature.Sattvic (pure), Rajasic (passionate) and Tamasic (darkness). Do thou hear of these. The faith of each is in accordance with his nature, O Bharata. The man consists of his faith, as a man's faith is, so is he.Those men who perform terrible austerities not enjoined by the scriptures, given to hypocrisy and egoism, impelled by the force of their desires and passions, torture, senseless as they are, the aggregated elements forming the body, and Me also, who dwells in the body within, know thou these to be of demoniac resolves.
- The foods which increase vitality, energy, strength, health, joy and cheerfulness, which are savoury, oleaginous, substantial and agreeable, are dear to the Sattvic.
- The foods like foods that are bitter, sour, saline, excessively hot, pungent, dry and burning, and which cause pain, grief and diseases, are dear to the Rajasic.
- That which is stale, tasteless, putrid, rotten, refused and impure, is dear to the Tamasic.
- The sacrifice that is offered by men without desire for fruit as enjoined by ordinance, with a fixed resolve in the mind that they should do the sacrifice as duty, is pure.
- That which is offered with a view to obtain fruit and for ostentation, O best of the Bharatas, know it to be a Rajasic Yajna.
- The sacrifice performed contrary to the ordinances in which no food is distributed, which is destitute of Mantras, gifts and faith, is said to be Tamasic.
- Worship of the gods, the twice-born, the Gurus and the wise, purity, straightforwardness, continence, and non-injury are called the austerity of the body. Speech which causes no annoyance and is true, as also pleasant and beneficial and also study of the scriptures, are called the austerity of the speech. Serenity of the mind, equanimity, silence, self-control, purity of nature.this is called the mental austerity. This threefold austerity, practised by steadfast men with the utmost faith, without desire for fruit is said to be Sattvic (pure).
- That austerity which is practised with the object of gaining good reception, honour and worship and with ostentation is here (in this world) said to be Rajasic, unstable and transitory.
- That austerity which is practised out of a foolish notion with self-torture, or for the purpose of ruining another is declared to be Tamasic.
- That alms (gift) which is given.knowing it to be a duty to give.to one who does no service in return, in a fit place and time, to a worthy person, that alms is said to be Sattvic.
- That gift which is given with a view to receiving in return or looking for the fruit or again reluctantly that gift is held to be Rajasic.
- That gift given at a wrong place or time, to unworthy persons, without respect and with insult, that is declared to be Tamasic.
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