Is there any way I can desire for a sweet without knowing how it tastes? Something totally unknown can never be desired. Either I have enjoyed it earlier, or someone else has told me about it and I have tasted the possible enjoyment by comparing it with something similar, or by knowing what the components taste like.
For example, if I have never had a rasgullah, and someone says that it is sweet-tasting, it is spongy, it has lots of syrup, then I know how it tastes because I know how the components taste.
There can never be a desire for something totally new.
Something is desirable because the image of my or someone else's enjoyment has arisen in my mind. In MY mind. So my mind has already enjoyed it. What is the point of repeating the sensory enjoyment?
Anything desirable has already been enjoyed. Let us be happy with the feeling and watch the desire diminish.
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