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hierarchy: The Nectar of Devotion
hierarchy: CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
Existential Ecstatic Love When a devotee is always intensely affected by love for Kṛṣṇa in a direct relationship with Him …
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Existential Ecstatic Love
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When a devotee is always intensely affected by love for Kṛṣṇa in a direct relationship with Him – or even …
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Moist existential ecstatic love aroused in connection with Kṛṣṇa is divided into two: direct and indirect. Rādhārāṇī was weaving a …
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Burnt existential ecstatic love is divided into three, and one example is as follows: One day, mother Yaśodā was dreaming …
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When there are manifestations of ecstatic symptoms in the body of a nondevotee, these are called dried-up symptoms of ecstatic …
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There are eight symptoms of existential ecstatic love: becoming stunned, perspiring, standing of the hairs on the body, faltering of …
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The scientific explanation of these eight symptoms is given by Rūpa Gosvāmī as follows. When the vital force of life …
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These symptoms are sometimes manifested internally and sometimes externally. The pure devotee always feels such symptomatic expressions within himself, but …
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BECOMING STUNNED
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The symptom of being stunned is caused by ecstatic tribulation, fearfulness, astonishment, lamentation and anger. This symptom is exhibited by …
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When Uddhava was describing Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes to Vidura, he said, “One day the gopīs became stunned when Kṛṣṇa, in the …