In English
There is a nose as well. Through the nose, you should accept only good and clean air and not foul air. The latter constitutes bad food. There is the skin with which we touch other things. The skin should not be allowed to contact whomsoever and whatsoever it wants to. All these senses, the sense of sound, the sense of touch, the sense of taste, of smell and of listening, should take in good food only. Only when all that you take in through these five organs is good, can you say that you are having sathwik food. If with the mouth alone you take good sathwik food like milk and curds, but you see bad things with your eyes, listen to bad things with your ears and touch unpleasant things with your skin, how can you then call yourself a sathwik person? If you take care in regard to all the intake, not only will this be called sathwik food, but it will also be good for health. There is one example. A good feature of sathwik food can be described by referring to the light manner in which we go and sit down to take food. After taking food, we should be able to get up in the same light manner. But today we call it sathwik food, we go light and sit for our meal. At the end of the meal when we get up, we are so heavy that we cannot get up easily. This will be called thamasik food.