We use old newspapers generally to wrap different types of articles purchased in a shop. If jasmine is wrapped in the paper, the paper smells like jasmine. Another person may wrap some edible like pakoda and the paper gives that smell. If dry fish is wrapped, the paper emits the smell of fish. Though the paper has no smell of its own, it takes on the smell of the thing with which it is associated. In the same way, our mind too gets polluted because of the illusion of body consciousness and attachment. When you think of a material object, it gets object-oriented, but if you turn the mind towards the Life Principle, it makes the life sacred. If you turn it towards the world, it is binding you to the world. If you turn it towards Awareness, which is Brahman, you become Brahman.
(Sanathana Sarathi, May 1993, pg 114)
