Change is something we find difficult to bear in every sphere of life. Be it a new computer software that government employees have to get used to or be it changing our habits which we are accustomed to. Our habits are deeply created impressions in our sub-conscious mind. Unless we consciously uproot our habits with new practices, it is going to be with us till the day we die and even after death it comes with us to the next life.  But it is possible to change ourselves and replace the bad habits with good ones, when we experience a higher taste.

Next comes the question, what is higher taste? The sense objects are higher than the senses, the mind is higher than the senses and the chief of all the senses and hence it is also called as 6^th sense. Intelligence is even higher than the mind. And He(soul) is even higher than the intelligence. In our modern world we find research and artificial temporary relief for problems faced with the body, mind, ego. But in the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna gives information even one step higher saying that we are all spirit souls and our perception of the self as body as the cause of all problems in life. We have experience of having pleasure in these different levels right from body, mind, intelligence and ego but very few of us would have actually experienced the pleasure of the soul which is obtained by serving the Supreme Lord.

What makes the soul happy? Freedom? Freedom from the influence of material nature such as the birth, death, disease, old age, lust greed, pride, anger, envy. Knowledge of the self as soul, material nature, Supreme Controller, action, time is essential as well to understand to progress further from the bodily concept of life.

Fish can be happy only when it is in water , not in the sand and the same way we can become happy by reviving the actual position of the soul as servant of the Lord in His Supreme abode.

In short, to change oneself one has to experience a higher taste by practicing Devotional Service to the Supreme Lord constantly, otherwise it's not possible to bear the pull of the material modes of nature from taking us deep in the dark.

Everyone thinks of changing the World but no one thinks of changing the self – Leo Tolstoy