# Cleanliness *On purity of body and mind* --- ### Clean Inside and Outside > *Śuci, śaucam, śuci.* So the devotee must be clean, inside and outside, both. Outside cleaning by taking bath, washing the body with oil or soap or soda; and inside, inside, materially, there will be no unclean things, stool, unnecessary stool. That means one must evacuate every morning and evening. If we eat more, then we have to evacuate twice. But if we eat less, then once evacuation is sufficient. It is said, *yogī, bhogī* and *rogī. Yogī* means spiritually advanced, and *bhogī* means materialistic, and *rogī* means diseased. It is a common saying. A *yogī* evacuates only once. That is *yogī.* And *bhogī,* because he eats more, so he evacuates twice. And one who evacuates more than twice, he's *rogī,* diseased. *Yogī, bhogī, rogī.* — [[spoken/1974/740123sb.hon|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.16.26–30, Honolulu, January 23, 1974]] --- ### Feel Healthy and Refreshed > So everything has got routine work. *Śaucam.* So you'll feel healthy. If you have evacuated nicely, you have washed inside and outside, taken your bath, then you'll feel always refreshed. And unless you feel refreshed, you cannot very nicely chant Hare Kṛṣṇa *mahā-mantra* or serve Kṛṣṇa. Therefore cleanliness is required. — [[spoken/1974/740123sb.hon|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.16.26–30, Honolulu, January 23, 1974]] --- ### Automatically Purified by Krishna Consciousness > *Apavitraḥ pavitro vā.* But... *Apavitraḥ pavitro vā sarvāvasthāṁ gato 'pi vā.* If one takes to Kṛṣṇa consciousness and follows the rules and regulation, then automatically he becomes clean inside and outside. Automatically. *Apavitraḥ pavitro vā.* What for we are accepting initiation? In any condition, in any condition we shall be purified by chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, *ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam,* if we chant really. — [[spoken/1974/740123sb.hon|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.16.26–30, Honolulu, January 23, 1974]] --- ### Fasting Is the Best Medicine > There is a Indian proverb that "Disease and unwanted guest, if you don't give food, they will go away." If some guest has come whom you do not want, don't give him food. Then he will go away. Similarly, disease, if you fast, it will go away. — [[spoken/1975/750703mw.den|Morning Walk, Denver, July 3, 1975]] --- *4 verified verbatim quotes from Śrīla Prabhupāda on cleanliness*