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Sattvic Foods: Foods that promotes health, vitality, strength, and tranquility. They calm the mind and sharpen the intellect, maintaining mental poise throughout the day. They are also soothing and nourishing to the body.
To increase sattva reduce both rajas and tamas, eat sattvic foods and enjoy activities and environments that produce joy and positive thoughts. Sattvic foods include whole grains and legumes and fresh fruits and vegetables that grow above the ground.
Sattvic foods have a kind of vitality which increases peace, bliss, lightness, clarity, intelligence and illumination. Rice, wheat, vegetables and fruit are sattvic.
 See also: Mind, Enlightenment, Tamasic, Rajas, Tamas
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