Superior taste in Krishna's service naturally extinguishes material desire without forced restraint.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: [prema-dhvani] Gaura-Premanandi. Hari Haribol. [01:05] viṣayā vinivartante nirāhārasya dehinaḥ rasa-varjaṃ raso 'py asya paraṃ dṛṣṭvā nivartate [Bg 2.59] [The embodied soul may be restricted from sense enjoyment, though the taste for sense objects remains. But, ceasing such engagements by experiencing a higher taste, he is fixed in consciousness.] Those who are Sanskrit student may recite this important...
Viṣayā... [recites with students responding through end of verse 61] yatato hy api kaunteya puruṣasya..., puruṣasya vipaścitaḥ, indriyāṇi pramāthīni haranti prasabhaṃ manaḥ [Bg 2.60] [The senses are so strong and impetuous, O Arjuna, that they forcibly carry away the mind even of a man of discrimination who is endeavoring to control them.] tāni sarvāṇi saṃyamya yukta āsīta mat-paraḥ vaśe hi yasyendriyāṇi tasya prajñā pratiṣṭhitā [Bg 2.61] [One who restrains his senses, keeping them under full control, and fixes his consciousness upon Me, is known as a man of steady intelligence.] [02:20] viṣayā vinivartante nirāhārasya dehinaḥ rasa-varjaṃ raso 'py asya paraṃ dṛṣṭvā nivartate [Bg 2.59] This verse we were discussing last Friday. The subject matter is that we are trying to transfer our activities from the material platform to the spiritual platform. That is the whole idea.
So material platform, as I have already explained to you several times, material platform means viṣayāḥ, viṣayāḥ. Viṣayāḥ means four things: āhāra, nidrā, bhaya, maithuna [Hitopadeśa] [Both animals and men share the activities of eating, sleeping, mating and defending. But the special property of the humans is that they are able to engage in spiritual life. Therefore without spiritual life, humans are on the level of animals.] —eating, sleeping and defending and mating.
These are called viṣayāḥ. The materialistic way of life means these four things: eating, sleeping, defending and mating—sense gratification. But if we want to go to the spiritual platform, then these bodily demands, at least for the present, we have to regulate. We cannot enjoy material life without any restriction and at the same time we can stand on the spiritual platform. That is the whole thing.
The difficult problem is there: we want to be spiritualist by speculation only. That is the whole tendency. People are much interested in philosophical speculation without any practical life. In the modern world it is said, yaśo 'rthe dharma-yajanam. This is the symptom of this age.
Yaśaḥ arthe. I want to associate with some organization, spiritual, just for the sake of name: "Oh, I am attached to that such big organization." But, so far my life is concerned, it is as it is. As it is. I have seen that...
I don't wish to name that particular... In some yoga institute, I have seen the members, they come, they hear, and they are hearing and coming for the last ten years. But unfortunately, they have not learned even the preliminary instruction of yoga. Yoga...