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Sometimes impersonalists, who are not actually in devotional service, may also exhibit such symptoms of ecstatic love, but this is not accepted as actual ecstasy. Impersonalists also sometimes chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra and dance, but their aim is not to serve the says that even if the reactions to chanting are manifested in the impersonalist’s body, they should not Rūpa Gosvāmī says that the impersonalists’ symptoms are simply reflections of ecstatic love, not the

devotee always feels such symptomatic expressions within himself, but being afraid of outsiders he does not

hands became almost motionless and my eyes became full of tears – so much so, in fact, that I could not My thighs became almost completely stunned so that I could not move even an inch.

Please ask Him not to approach Me, because He is always the cause of all grief for us.”

Rukmiṇī, the first queen of Kṛṣṇa in Dvārakā, was shedding tears out of ecstatic jubilation, she did not

But still I could not check the trembling of my body, and therefore all of my friends in the house could

Because such a change of color is so rare, Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī does not further discuss this point.

But when Kṛṣṇa opened His mouth, she saw not only the entire earth but also many other planets within

These symptoms signify that although the gopīs’ business was not finished, they had become stunned with

Abhimanyu did not like Rādhārāṇī’s association with Kṛṣṇa, and therefore when Raktaka saw Kṛṣṇa in the

Because of his faltering voice, he could not offer any prayers to Kṛṣṇa, and his eyes filled with tears

This shedding of tears is not actually an ecstatic loving expression, however.

When a person is confused by simultaneous happiness and tribulation and does not know what to do, this

Bhīma wanted to kill Śiśupāla immediately, but because Kṛṣṇa did not order him to do so, he became morose

Such nondevotees are not actually melted; they are hardhearted.