You may ask,
“What is the purpose of crying, tears?”
You see, our five sense organs - eyes, ears, nose, mouth, skin - are always running after their subjects in the world. Eyes desire to see beautiful things. Ears are always anxious to hear sweet sounds. The nose always wants to inhale fragrance. And the mouth, the tongue, is ever desirous of tasting different delicacies. Our five sense organs are always running after their respective subjects in the world. But now we must make these five sense organs develop a keen desire for Shree Krishna (the Supreme Divine Personality). This is our aim in devotional practice.
You see, up until now, our five senses have been restless for the world. They have desired to see, hear, taste, touch, and smell the world. This is how we fell in love with the world, by constantly thinking about it. But now we must make an effort to make Shree Krishna alone the subject of our five senses. We must make them long for the Divine Beloved. This is the science of devotion. We must think in the following way,
“When will the day come when these eyes of mine will behold the supreme beauty of the all-attractive Lord Shree Krishna?”
At present, worldly objects seem so desirable to my eyes, worldly objects which hold no real beauty at all.
“When will my eyes feast upon the beauty of Shree Krishna, who is more beautiful than countless kamdevs (gods of love) put together?”
We can take the combined beauty of the entire world, and still it would not equal even a billionth of the beauty that dwells in Shree Krishna.
“When will my eyes see that beauty?”
“When will I hear His beautiful voice filled with nectar?”
“When will I hear the melodious sound of His flute?”
Constant meditation in this manner is called sadhana (spiritual practice), the practice of devotion. It is called sadhana practice because our sense organs are not suddenly going to desire Shree Krishna. It is natural for them to run to the world because they are under the control of the mind, and the mind is a product of maya (Divine illusion), and so is this material world. So they belong to the same category.
So we will have to make an effort to divert these senses towards Shree Krishna.
“When will I see Him? When will I hear Him? When will I inhale His Divine fragrance? When will I attain His Divine touch?”
So this entails the practice of devotion.
