What is the higher taste? It is different from the taste we get when our senses engage with their objects. When the senses come in contact with sense objects, they taste something, but it is temporary; the taste has a beginning and end. The taste derived from practicing bhakti has no such beginning and end, because bhakti is eternal. The mundane senses are unable to taste anything eternal; they are grounded in matter. Thus it is the self and not the material senses that tastes bhakti. Hankering to achieve this higher taste is what elevates our higher consciousness.
(LFD, Vol2, The Process for Awakening Bhakti, Pg 19, last paragraph)