SB 01.05.19 – We can’t avoid being haunted – so better to be haunted by the higher taste than the lowe taste

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thank you In this verse Narada Muni tells Vyasadev about the imperishable power of the higher taste he says that in the previous verse he has talked about two verses 17th he has said how even if material dharma is unsuccessful still one should spiritual dharma devotion is unsuccessful still it is successful still it is better than successful material dharma then he has said therefore one should strive only for spiritual success and harmonize everything in relation and subordination to that now in this verse he describes how even if a devotee falls still the devotee comes back to Krishna Navai jano jato kathan janavrje so jano jato those person that person who is a devotee of the lord and even if such a person falls back that person does not undergo samsmriti material existence like other people does not undergo Anga here Vyasadev is being referred to by the affectionate term Anga the guru disciple relationship is of a great affection and reverence the disciples reverence towards the guru and the guru’s affection towards the disciple smaran mukundangiri upaguhanam punaru so why does he not undergo material existence the person who has fallen away this person’s material existence is not like that of other materialists because the fallen devotee keeps remembering Krishna constantly and because of remembering Krishna constantly the fallen devotee cannot totally give up the lotus feet of Krishna a devotee is haunted by the higher taste of Krishna’s lotus feet we often as sadhakas feel that we are haunted by our material desires we want to give them up but they still keep coming and troubling us what we don’t realize is that we are bound to be haunted by something or the other if we give in to our material desires and start indulging in sense gratification still we will find that we will be haunted by our spiritual remembrances of Krishna spiritually sweet experiences although we may have had just a few experiences but those few experiences will be so fulfilling that they will make us want more and more of those experiences and even if we don’t realize this longing consciously consciously we may be craving for material enjoyment and think that oh now that I have turned away from Krishna now I am free for material enjoyment now I don’t have any rules trifling me but subconsciously we will still be longing for the higher taste subconsciously we will be comparing whatever we are enjoying right now with what we have enjoyed earlier and we will find that material enjoyment will always fall short and the taste of Krishna consciousness will drag us back to it once again and that’s how the devotee will be restored Sri Prabhupada writes that the process of bhakti yoga is so pure and perfect that a devotee is forcibly dragged to ultimate perfection that forces by the power of higher taste and this power is our greatest hope even if we feel our material desires troubling us if we just keep practicing bhakti diligently trying to absorb ourselves in the remembrance of Krishna then we will be eventually increasingly attracted towards Krishna and that conscious agitation that conscious glamour caused by our material desires will subside so when we are trying to absorb ourselves in the remembrance of Krishna while chanting and while praying if we can just remember this whatever the mind is telling me to do even if it be the grossest form of sensual enjoyment that is not going to make me happy because after that again that will get over in a few moments and again I will be longing for the higher happiness of Krishna consciousness so why give this up then if I have to come back to this again and if I give it up actually I will be creating more conditionings which I will have to remove so better even if it seems difficult let me persevere and then the higher taste will surely appear by Krishna’s grace and it will become stronger and stronger and eventually it will drive out the troubling lower tastes and then our bhakti will become steadily joyful Thank you