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sveda, kampa, romancasru, gadgada, vaivarnya
unmada, visada, dhairya, garva, harsa, dainya
eta bhave prema bhaktaganere nacaya
krsnera anandamrta-sagare bhasaya
SYNONYMS
sveda—perspiration; kampa—trembling; romanca—standing of the hairs on the body; asru—tears; gadgada—faltering; vaivarnya—changing of bodily color; unmada—madness; visada—melancholy; dhairya—patience; garva—pride; harsa—joyfulness; dainya—humbleness; eta—in many ways; bhave—in ecstasy; prema—love of Godhead; bhakta-ganere—unto the devotees; nacaya—causes to dance; krsnera—of Lord Krsna; ananda—transcendental bliss; amrta—nectar; sagare—in the ocean; bhasaya—floats " ’Perspiration, trembling, standing on end of one’s bodily hairs, tears, faltering voice, fading complexion, madness, melancholy, patience, pride, joy and humility-these are various natural symptoms of ecstatic love of Godhead, which causes a devotee to dance and float in an ocean of transcendental bliss while chanting the Hare Krsna mantra.
PURPORT
Srila Jiva Gosvami, in his Priti-sandarbha (66), explains this stage of love of Godhead: bhagavat-priti-rupa vrttir mayadi-mayi na bhavati kim tarhi, svarupa-sakty-ananda-rupa, yad-ananda-paradhinah sri-bhagavan apiti.
Similarly, in the 69th anuccheda he offers further explanation: tad evam priter laksanam citta-dravas tasya ca roma-harsadikam kathancij jate ’pi citta-drave roma-harsadike va na ced asaya-suddhis tadapi na bhakteh samyag-avirbhava iti jnapitam asaya-suddhir nama canya-tatparya-parityagah priti-tatparyam ca ata evanimitta svabhaviki ceti tad visesanam.
Transcendental love of Godhead is not under the jurisdiction of the material energy, for it is the transcendental bliss and pleasure potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Since the Supreme Lord is also under the influence of transcendental bliss, when one comes in touch with such bliss in love of Godhead, one’s heart melts, and the symptoms of this are standing of the hairs on end, etc.
Sometimes a person thus melts and manifests these transcendental symptoms yet at the same time is not well behaved in his personal transactions.This indicates that he has not yet reached complete perfection in devotional life.
In other words, a devotee who dances in ecstasy but after dancing and crying appears to be attracted to material affairs has not yet reached the perfection of devotional service, which is called asaya-suddhi, or the perfection of existence.
One who attains the perfection of existence is completely averse to material enjoyment and engrossed in transcendental love of Godhead.
It is therefore to be concluded that the ecstatic symptoms of asaya-suddhi are visible when a devotee’s service has no material cause and is purely spiritual in nature.
These are characteristics of transcendental love of Godhead, as stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam (1.2.6):
sa vai pumsam paro dharmo
yato bhaktir adhoksaje
ahaituky apratihata