Devotional Service in Love of God 151

Pajicaratra Lord Siva therefore tells Parvati: “My dear supreme god-
dess, you can know from me that any person who has developed the
ecstasy of love for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and who is
always merged in transcendental bliss on account of this love, cannot
even perceive the material distress or happiness coming from the body
or mind.”

Affection and the dealings of love are different branches of the
original tree of love preceding the many varieties of affectionate

manifestations, which will not be discussed here. These different
manifestations have been described by Sanatana Gosvami in his

Bhagavatamrta. Although the subject of such affections and dealings
of love are very confidential, Sanatana Gosvami has described them
very explicitly.

Sri Ripa Gosvami thus concludes the first division of the Bhakti-
rasamrta-sindhu, offering up his treatise for the transcendental plea-
sure of Sanatana Gosvami, who has established the transcendental
beauty, and of Gopala Bhatta Gosvami, Sri Raghunatha Bhatta Go-
svami and Raghunathadas Gosvami. It appears from this statement
that the great Srila Jiva Gosvami was not yet active when Bhakti-
rasamrta-sindhu was written.

Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta summary study of the first division
of Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, up to the descriptions of ecstatic love of
Godhead, which are to follow next.
