31 / Additional Symptoms

All the above-mentioned thirty-one symptoms of ecstatic love are
called vyabhicari, or disturbing. All these symptoms refer to appar-
ently disturbed conditions, but even in such disturbed conditions
there is acute ecstatic love for Krsna. These symptoms, however, can
be divided into three groups: first class, second class and third. There
are many other disturbing symptoms in ecstatic love, such as envy,
anxiety, pride, jealousy, conclusion, cowardliness, forgiveness, impa-
tience, hankering, regret, doubtfulness and impudence. These are in-
cluded in all the thirty-one conditions of ecstatic love. Srila Ripa
Gosvami has very nicely analyzed the different kinds of disturbing
symptoms, and although it is very difficult to find the exact English
equivalents for many Sanskrit words used here, his analysis will now
be presented.

When one becomes malicious upon seeing another’s advancement
of life, his state of mind is generally called envy. When one becomes
frightened at seeing a lightning bolt in the sky, that fearfulness brings
on anxiety. Therefore, fearfulness and anxiety can be taken as one.
When someone wants to hide his real mentality, it is called avahittha,
or concealment. When a person wants to exhibit superiority, it is
called pride. Both of these can be classified under pretension. In a
pretentious attitude both avahittha and pride are to be found. When
one cannot tolerate an offense committed by another, it is called
amarsa, and when one cannot tolerate the opulence of another it is
called jealousy. Jealousy and amarsa are both caused by intolerance.
When one is able to establish the correct import of a word, it can be
called conclusiveness. And before such a conclusive determination of

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