SB 01.05.27 – Taste for Krishna comes by using the gross and subtle bodies in his service and it helps us use those bodies for the perfect purpose

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we can get the determination to persevere amidst the struggles of sadhana bhakti thank you so here Narada Muni is telling the wonderful effect of developing taste for the lord so into that lord once i had developed taste then by that taste my consciousness became completely fixed on him explains that once the taste is there then the intelligence becomes steadily fixed on the lord and once the intelligence is fixed on the lord then the the gross and the material body loss in the subtle bodies which otherwise create a distraction for us on our spiritual path they now no longer create a distraction because they also become fixed on the supreme lord and so these are actually the lord’s energies and when i’m able to see the connection of these with the lord then i will no longer be bewildered by whatever happens due to them whatever happens due to them means that the material world is filled with change so the at the physical level there will be changes political environmental social cultural and at the subtle level also inside the mind there may be changes today i may feel good about chanting hare krishna tomorrow i may not feel at all good and third day i may feel indifferent so if we identify ourselves too much with these physical or mental arenas then we will get unduly affected by the changes that happen over there but if we stay fixed in the lord and in the understanding that i am transcendental as is krishna and with that understanding we keep practicing devotional service then over a period of time the mind becomes so purified because of attraction to krishna that then there is no illusion and bondage left supriya shravasya that lord who is so very dear to us all and that lord whom we need to hear whom we need to worship and because all of us are individuals so all of us will have a unique relationship with the lord and that applies not on not just to the sarupa to which we belong eternally but it applies also to the way bhakti will work for us someone may chant 16 rounds and feel very happy feel very energized empowered somebody else may chant 16 rounds and feel quite discouraged bored burdened what to speak of different people getting different reactions to the holy name even the mind itself may get or give wrong reactions the mind receives intelligent input from the a you can see subtle body or the inner body comprises of the body and it receives input from the gross senses or subtle senses and that makes us into particular so if we are to advance genuinely then we need to recognize that our we are as souls are beyond the gross and subtle coverings of the body we are eternal souls who have a relationship with krishna and hunting hare krishna is the opportunity to gain or regain the eternal ecstatic life of love thank you so actually by chanting hare krishna and by doing this persistently we will develop this taste and then when we develop the taste we will be able to get this vision which narada muni has got of seeing that because the lord is transcendental i am transcendental and this body and mind which being material can be distractions but when understood as krishna’s energies can be used in his service and by using his service they can help us move onwards in our spiritual life towards krishna so essentially when we are chanting we chant verbally loudly we are using the physical body we are trying to concentrate the mind using subtle body and through these through the use of these we are connecting with the supreme lord and in this way chanting helps us to use our gross and subtle body for spiritual purposes and eventually spiritualize them and that way we attain the