Krishna says that he is the taste of water, but science says water is tasteless. How can we reconcile this?

From: Panca pandava Das

Krsna says in B.G I am the taste of water, but we find the properties of water it is tasteless, how we reconcile this?

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Question from Pancha Panda Chaitanya Mahaprabhu In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says that I am the taste of water but we find that among the properties of water, it is tasteless How do we reconcile this? Answer Modern science may consider water to be tasteless but from our day to day experience we all can feel the taste of water by perceiving the difference in water at different places we taste the water in Mumbai to be different from Delhi and from Nagpur and other places from the chemical point of view this difference may be because of certain presence or absence of certain chemicals and bottled or mineral water in which most of the chemicals are removed often tastes flat but when we are talking about the taste as Krishna is mentioning in the Bhagavad Gita that is not necessarily the same as the taste that we think about at a broad level there is similarity but when Krishna says I am the taste of water actually water is what enables us to access all other tastes when people get a disease by which they are not able to secrete saliva at that time when there is no water secreted by the tongue in the form of saliva and even if the most delicious item comes in their tongue they actually can’t taste it it appears as bland so water is the foundational taste that makes all other tastes accessible to us so in that sense Krishna when he says I am the taste of water he is telling that the taste that is present in all objects ultimately comes from him and that accessibility to our consciousness of the taste of various objects the connecting medium through which we are able to taste is water one way to understand the taste is seeing it from the point of view of the water in our tongue another way of looking at it is with respect to the food items generally when all the food items that are there they need to have a proper level of water content in it when chapati water content dries up then we say this chapati has become dry and I can’t eat it so in general for us to access the taste of any object there has to be certain amount of water in the tongue and there has to be certain amount of water in that particular object some objects may be dry and that’s how they taste best but even the dryness is in one sense a function of water it is the absence of water over there or the presence of water in a very less quantity that is appropriate according to that particular item’s recipe and nature but the important point is that taste that water has the functionality of making all other tastes accessible to us and in that sense water is the medium through which we taste everything so when Krishna says I am the taste of water what he means is that the taste that we experience in all objects starting with water which enables us to taste all other objects Krishna is manifesting through that so essentially in the 7th chapter 8th verse where this particular point comes there Krishna is talking about how he is the essence of everything and even when we call something like water as tasteless we perceive all other tastes through that so if even something as apparently tasteless as water it cannot have any taste without the presence of Krishna and what then to speak of any other object so the essence of a thing means when everything else is removed and only that object is reduced to its barest minimum that is called the essence so the essence of everything is Krishna and the essence of all tastes is present in water that water is what gives taste to everything else, water is what enables us to taste everything else and Krishna manifests himself as the essence of that ability to taste and that’s what he is conveying by saying that I am the taste of water so Prabhupada was asked this question by Hridayanand Maharaj about what is the meaning of philosophical speculation, Prabhupada explained that when Krishna says that I am the taste of water then you analyze how Krishna is the taste of water, accept the truth that Krishna is the taste of water and analyze how he is the taste of water so the analysis that I gave is based on the Sankhya understanding of how the material elements evolve and how they live correlated with our day to day experience, thank you