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All the previously mentioned thirty-three symptoms of ecstatic love are called vyabhicārī, or disturbing. All these symptoms refer to apparently …

When one becomes malicious upon seeing another’s advancement of life, his state of mind is generally called envy. When one …

When all such symptoms are included in ecstatic love, they are called sañcārī, or continuously existing ecstatic symptoms. All of …

When a person is envious or defamed, there may be a change in the color of the body. This may …

Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī says that fright, sleep, fatigue, laziness and the madness of intoxication are sometimes grouped under continuous symptoms …

False argument, determination, steadiness, remembrance, joyfulness, ignorance, humility and unconsciousness are also different symptoms of ecstatic love. Dependence is also …

One devotee exclaimed, “Oh, I cannot see the district of Mathurā! Even though by simply hearing the name of Mathurā …

When Arjuna witnessed the universal form of Kṛṣṇa, whose dazzling teeth were practically devouring the very existence of the universe, …

Sometimes ghastly activities also support strong ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa. This state of mind is called ecstatic fearfulness under illusion. …

When the Keśī demon was assassinated by Kṛṣṇa, Kaṁsa became hopeless. He said, “Keśī-daitya was as dear to me as …

Kaṁsa once rebuked Akrūra by saying, “You are such a fool that you are accepting a cowherd boy to be …

One devotee tried to console a kadamba tree when the tree was lamenting because Kṛṣṇa had not touched even its …

Garuḍa the eagle, the carrier of Viṣṇu, once said, “Who can be more pure than I? Where is there a …

The symptoms of ecstatic love are sometimes grouped under four headings – namely, generation, conjunction, aggregation and satisfaction.

Kṛṣṇa once told Rādhārāṇī, “My dear friend, when You tried to meet Me alone in the morning, Your friend Mekhalā …

One night, after the Pūtanā demon had been killed, baby Kṛṣṇa could be seen playing upon her breast. Upon seeing …

After Kṛṣṇa had just learned to walk, He was going in and out of the house very frequently. Yaśodā became …

When Devakī, the mother of Kṛṣṇa, saw her son very jubilant in the presence of the wrestlers in Kaṁsa’s arena, …

Once when Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī was standing on the bank of the Yamunā River in the forest of Vṛndāvana, She was …

Sometimes there were great festivals in the house of Nanda Mahārāja, and all of the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana would assemble …