Here is an honest admission rarely found in spiritual teaching. Krishna says: when you forcibly restrain the senses, the outward behavior changes — but the inner craving remains. The rasa, the taste, the pull — that stays. It only leaves when something greater is experienced.
Anyone who has dieted knows this truth. You stop eating sweets. The sweets are gone from the plate. But the wanting lingers. The mind still turns toward the dessert counter. Outer control alone cannot uproot inner longing.
What can? Param drishtva — seeing the Supreme, tasting something higher. When a child discovers cricket, marbles fall away on their own. No one forced the child to quit marbles. A greater joy simply made the lesser one irrelevant. Krishna's path is not suppression. It is replacement — from a smaller joy to an immeasurably larger one.