SB 1.5.19 The higher taste has permanently destroyed us for the lower taste

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Thank you. Srimad Bhagavatam 1.5.19 This is one of the most significant verses for a sadhaka to understand how the higher taste of Krishna Consciousness is something which once got will never be forgotten, even if it is neglected or rejected by the obstinacy of the sadhaka’s mind.
So this is very helpful for us to meditate on when we are chanting the holy names of Krishna and feel distracted or rather feel attracted by things other than Krishna while chanting and feel that those other things will give us greater pleasure. A devotee doesn’t undergo material miseries like other people. The miseries of material existence are not experienced by a devotee.
The lotus feet of Lord Mukunda, one remembers again and again. Even if one forgets it temporarily, one embraces it again. Even if a person gives it up, once a person has become a person who has experienced rasa, the sweetness of remembrance of Krishna, such a person, once having experienced that sweetness, doesn’t give that up very easily.
Krishna Chakradakar is the example of a person haunted by a ghost. Once a person gets haunted, the ghost doesn’t go away very easily. Similarly, the ghost of the higher taste doesn’t go away very easily.
Even if you forget it, it keeps coming back again and again and yet again. And in this way, it keeps us always dissatisfied in material life and thereby ultimately prompts us to return to Krishna. So, of course, in a sense, nobody can be satisfied in material life.
But as long as one doesn’t know that there is something higher, then one may be satisfied in material life at least for some time. And that some time can go on for many, many lifetimes also. But once one has experienced the higher taste of remembering Krishna, of somehow connecting with Krishna and serving Krishna, then all the material pleasures become pale and stale in comparison.
And because of that higher taste, one just cannot live peacefully. So because of the obstinacy of the mind, we may be goaded and dragged towards the lower taste. But we will just not get any satisfaction in that lower taste.
And that will enable us to turn towards Krishna in the near future or in the distant future depending on how we use our free will. So when our mind starts getting distracted while chanting, we can contemplate how the senses drag us away and the mind drags us away towards pleasures which we will not be able to enjoy because we have relished the higher taste. So contemplating on how, listening to the mind and going towards the higher taste is a lost cause.
Because we have already experienced the higher taste, it gives us the impetus to fight off the desires that drag us down and resist them knowing that because we have got a higher taste, we will not get a lower taste. So the mind itself will not become peaceful by this, but at least we will not feel so allured to listen to the mind when we meditate on how the higher taste has permanently destroyed us for the lower taste.