YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT I YOU EAT LUST | HG GAURMANDAL DAS | Q&A 01

Srila Prabhupada says "As far as controlling "Kam" or lust, the best thing is don't eat any highly spiced foodstuffs and always." According to Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita, lust results from a mode of passion, and he describes what causes us to develop a mode of passion and its symptoms. Krishna then describes what type of food one eats when one associates with passion, which is spicy, hot, causes burning to the heart, and leads to misery. The types of food vary according to the mode they belong to, such as Satvik, Rajasik, and Tamasik. Rajasik food will intensify our mode of passion, resulting in lust. "You are what you eat." Your body is purified or impurified according to the foodstuffs you eat. we have enough food, grains, milk, butter, and fruits to consume which is stavik in nature and will help us to conquer lust. Eating meat is not at all recommended because it is not sanctified. You become holy and healthy in mind and body if you offer Krsna satvik food and then honor it. Then you can understand Kṛṣṇa consciousness. You can make progress in that way. If your body is not sanctified, if it is impure, how can you understand the pure consciousness or Kṛṣṇa consciousness?