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TEXT 59 visaya vinivartante
SYNONYMS  visayah--objects
for sense enjoyment; vinivartante--are practiced to be refrained
from; niraharasya--by negative restrictions; dehinah--for
the embodied; rasa-varjam--giving up the taste; rasah--sense
of enjoyment; api--although there is; asya--his; param--far
superior things; drstva--by experiencing; nivartate--ceases
from.
TRANSLATION 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.
PURPORT Unless one is
transcendentally situated, it is not possible to cease from sense enjoyment.
The process of restriction from sense enjoyment by rules and regulations
is something like restricting a diseased person from certain types of eatables.
The patient, however, neither likes such restrictions nor loses his taste
for eatables. Similarly, sense restriction by some spiritual process like
astanga-yoga,
in the matter of yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana,
dhyana, etc., is recommended for less intelligent persons who have
no better knowledge. But one who has tasted the beauty of the Supreme Lord
Krsna, in the course of his advancement in Krsna consciousness, no longer
has a taste for dead material things. Therefore, restrictions are there
for the less intelligent neophytes in the spiritual advancement of life,
but such restrictions are only good if one actually has a taste for Krsna
consciousness. When one is actually Krsna conscious, he automatically loses
his taste for pale things.
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