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Chapter 17
Secondly, those who take a share of the calf from the milk of a cow, make the milk impure. If they milk the cow, after the calf has been well-fed, the milk is pure.
The feelings of a person, who eats, and of the person, who offers food, have also their effect, on food. (i) Food which is offered with great pleasure, is of superior quality. (ii) The food offered with pleasure, but the eater thinks that he has saved some money, by receiving free food - it is considered of medium quality. (iii) Food offered with a feeling of compulsion, that he has been forced to offer the food, because someone has arrived, and the eater eats the food having the feeling of selfishness- that food is, of an inferior quality.
In the Gita it is mentioned, that good persons are devoted to the welfare of all beings ([1]). It means that the things and actions of persons, who are devoted to the welfare of other beings, are pure and holy.
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