At once Kṛṣṇa answered, “Brother-in-law! It is not that there are no ways. The guṇas are of three kinds: the first is sāttvika, the second rājasika, the third tāmasika. These depend on the antaḥkaraṇa, and the antaḥkaraṇa depends on food. Whatever fare (food) people eat, such guṇas become their habit; and whatever guṇas arise in them, so they will behave. So even if, through the saṃskāras of merit and sin from former births, one has some divine and some demonic ways, if at least in this birth one curbs the kinds of food that strengthen such demonic guṇas and cultivates sāttvika food, one can surely bring about some change in any demonic saṃskāras whatever.” So he gently spoke these cooling words, so that they reached the heart. Arjuna, absorbed in this daily experience, so vital to every human being, swelled with joy merely on hearing that there was such an excellent way, and prayed, “Mādhava! Tell me which foods produce which guṇas.”