Heart Defilement Revealed

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, the words reveal that what defiles is not food but the content of the heart, the ongoing conversation you hold within about yourself and the world. The mouth merely mirrors the inner state; a thought fashioned in the quiet of your I AM becomes your public experience. When you accept a belief that you are unclean or separate, that belief moves from the heart into your words and actions, and the defilement appears as conflict, fear, or compulsion. Thus, the unwashed hands are a symbol for the old habit of seeking cleanliness through externals, while the real purification comes from within, through a renewed sense of self as one with the divine I AM. If you change the inner posture—feel the truth that you are already complete, loved, and capable of choosing your reality—the external conditions shift to match that inner state. The verse invites you to inspect what you hold in the heart, not what you eat, and to revise it until your speech and conduct resonate with wholeness.