Does outside food make our mind impure?

A brief statement from Pujya Maharaj Ji — watch the video above to hear it in full.

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The market food you see in the shops looks very good, but only looks so. The methods of preparing it are very strange and varied. Because there is little knowledge of purity there, they serve it piping hot. What all has been mixed into it, the food is kept open. Which creature has fallen into it? Stop eating such market things. If you eat salt and roti at home, you will stay healthy. With the same money, bring vegetables, bring fruit and flowers and have them at home. These outside things, we feel, should be reduced gradually and then stopped.

Whatever dry food is ready at your own home, eat that, and your intellect will stay pure. Your health will remain good, and naam jap will happen. Now, after eating pizza and burgers, bhajan will not happen. We feel that at least one should try to be careful. And whether or not others are careful, satsangi folks should at least improve their eating habits. Without improving eating habits, the intellect does not become pure. As is the food, so becomes the mind. If you eat impure things, your health will not stay good. And nowadays people's tongues get so much taste that after that, how will roti and dal seem good?

This text is taken from the auto-generated subtitles of the video — it may contain word errors. Be sure to watch the video for the authentic words.

Original video: Bhajan Marg (YouTube)