The principle of the ‘higher taste’ holds that the greatest obstacle to spiritual life – sex desire – can be removed, or at least greatly reduced. Srila Prabhupada often commented on this, and in India in 1972, while lecturing in India on Srimad Bhagavatam (1.2.31), he said, “if one takes to Krsna consciousness, then gradually that knot, sex desire… That is the test whether one’s sex desire has diminished. That is the test.”