Spiritual tastes

Expressions researched:
"spiritual tastes" |"spiritual taste"

SB Canto 1

The highest spiritual realization is knowledge that the Personality of Godhead is the reservoir of all spiritual tastes, or rasas

SB 1.1.3 Purport: The Vedas are compared to the desire tree because they contain all things knowable by man. They deal with mundane necessities as well as spiritual realization. The Vedas contain regulated principles of knowledge covering social, political, religious, economic, military, medicinal, chemical, physical and metaphysical subject matter and all that may be necessary to keep the body and soul together. Above and beyond all this are specific directions for spiritual realization. Regulated knowledge involves a gradual raising of the living entity to the spiritual platform, and the highest spiritual realization is knowledge that the Personality of Godhead is the reservoir of all spiritual tastes, or rasas.

1974 Conversations and Morning Walks

Bhakti means enhancing spiritual taste. That is bhakti. And as he increases his spiritual taste, he becomes detestful to this material enjoyment. This is the taste

Morning Walk at Marina del Rey -- July 14, 1974, Los Angeles: Prabhupāda: Bhakti means enhancing spiritual taste. That is bhakti. Bhaktiḥ pareśānubhavo viraktir anyatra syāt [SB 11.2.42]. And as he increases his spiritual taste, he becomes (sic:) detestful to this material enjoyment. This is the taste.

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

Spiritual life means curing the contamination of material disease. That is spiritual life. And when you are purified, you relish the spiritual taste

Morning Walk -- May 21, 1975, Melbourne: Prabhupāda: Our existence is now impure. Therefore we have to accept birth, death, old age, and disease. And when it is purified, without any contamination, then there is no birth, death, old age. In diseased condition you cannot relish. Even if you are given actually rasagullā you will not taste it very nice. If there is no appetite, even it is rasagullā, it is useless. Spiritual life means curing the contamination of material disease. That is spiritual life. And when you are purified, you relish the spiritual taste.

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

The more we minimize this āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithuna, this means we are advanced in spiritual taste

Morning Walk -- July 5, 1976, Washington, D.C.: Prabhupāda: Eating, sleeping, sex and defense. Āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithuna. They're required. So long we have got this body, we require to eat something, we require to sleep sometimes, we require a little sense gratification, and we require defense. But it should be minimized, not increased. That is tapasya. In the human life this is possible, this is possible. Nidrāhāra-vihārakādi-vijitau **. One can conquer over these things, by practice. The more we minimize this āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithuna, this means we are advanced in spiritual taste.(?) It is practiced. My, my personal life, I don't sleep at night. And nowadays, at most, one hour. Yes. But I take rest in the daytime, at least two to three hours. So it is not that I am sleeping one hour. I sleep three to four hours total. But if practiced, it can be reduced, practiced.