23.18-19

ksantir avyartha-kalatvam

viraktir mana-sunyata

asa-bandhah samutkantha

nama-gane sada rucih

asaktis tad-gunakhyane

pritis tad-vasati-sthale

ity adayo ’nubhavah syur

jata-bhavankure jane

SYNONYMS

ksantih—forgiveness; avyartha-kalatvam—being free from wasting time; viraktih—detachment; mana-sunyata—absence of false prestige; asa-bandhah—hope; samutkantha—eagerness; nama-gane—in chanting the Holy names; sada—always; rucih—taste; asaktih—attachment; tat—of Lord Krsna; guna-akhyane—in describing the transcendental qualities; pritih—affection; tat—His; vasati-sthale—in places of residence (the temple or holy places); iti—thus; adayah—and so on; anubhavah—the signs; syuh—are; jata—developed; bhava-ankure—whose seed of ecstatic emotion; jane—in a person " ’When the seed of ecstatic emotion for Krsna fructifies, the following nine symptoms manifest in one’s behavior: forgiveness, concern that time should not be wasted, detachment, absence of false prestige, hope, eagerness, a taste for chanting the holy name of the Lord, attachment to descriptions of the transcendental qualities of the Lord, and affection for those places where the Lord resides-that is, a temple or a holy place like Vrndavana.

These are all called anubhava, subordinate signs of ecstatic emotion.

They are visible in a person in whose heart the seed of love of God has begun to fructify.’

PURPORT

These two verses are found in the Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu (1.3.25-26).