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The Bhagavad Gita, India's manual for yogis since the most ancient times, prescribes that the food for spiritual practitioners should be light and digestible. Why? Because the body's condition does throw its influence into the mind's condition. A body which is habitually constipated, whose bowels are tight and filthy with accumulations, receives and spreads morbid poisons. These affect, in time, not only the organs directly concerned but also the sexual organs, the blood, brain, and nerves. Lust is stimulated, negative ideas are intensified.

-- Notebooks Category 5: The Body > Chapter 3 : Diet > # 82