27 / Symptoms of Ecstatic Love
The bodily symptoms which are manifested by a devotee in expressing ecstatic love for Krṣṇa are called  anubhāva . Practical examples of  anubhāva  are as follows: dancing, rolling on the ground, singing very loudly, stretching the body, crying loudly, yawning, breathing very heavily, neglecting the presence of others, drooling, laughing like a madman, wheeling the head and belching. When there is an extraordinary excess of ecstatic love, with all of these bodily symptoms manifested, one feels relieved transcendentally.
These symptoms are divided into two parts: one is called  śīta , and the other is called  kṣepaṇa . When there is yawning, it is called  śīta , and when there is dancing it is called  kṣepaṇa .
Dancing
While watching the  rāsa  dance performed by Lord Krṣṇa and the  gopīs , Lord Śiva beheld the beautiful face of Krṣṇa and immediately began to dance and beat upon his small  ḍiṇḍima  drum. While Lord Śiva was dancing in ecstasy, his eldest son, Ganeśa, joined him.
Rolling on the Ground
In the Third Canto, 1st Chapter, 31st verse, of  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam , Vidura inquires from Uddhava, “My dear friend, is Akrūra in an auspicious condition? He is not only a learned scholar and sinless, but he is also a devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa. He has such ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa that I have seen him rolling upon Kṛṣṇa’s footprints in the dust as if
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