393 The Nectar of Devotion

and at the same time He is roaring like a lion to encourage Vrsasura
to fight with Him!” This is an example of conjugal love, fraternity,
and chivalry. The conjugal love is taken here as the whole, and the
fraternity and chivalry are taken as the parts.

When Kubja caught hold of Krsna’s yellow garment because she
was feeling almost lusty with sex urge, Krsna simply bowed down His
head with His cheeks glowing in front of the many people who were
standing there and laughing. This is an example of a mixture of
ecstatic conjugal love and laughter. The laughter is taken as the
whole, and the conjugal love is taken as the part.

Visala, a cowherd boy who was attempting to fight with Bhadra-
sena, was addressed by another cowherd boy as follows: “Why are
you attempting to show your chivalrous spirit before me? Before
this, you even attempted to fight with Sridima, but you must know
that Sridimi does not even care to fight with hundreds of Balaramas.
So why are you acting so enthusiastically when you actually have no
importance at all?” This is an example of a mixture of devotional
fraternity and chivalry. The chivalry is taken as the whole, and the
fraternity is taken as the part.

Sigupala was habituated to calling Krsna ill names, and by his in-
sults he irritated the sons of Pandu more than he irritated Krsna. The
Pandavas therefore equipped themselves with all kinds of weapons
to kill Sigupala. Their feelings were a mixture of ecstatic anger and
fraternity, the anger being taken as the whole, and fraternity as the
part.

Once Krsna was watching Sridima very expertly using his stick to
fight with Balarama, who was an expert club-fighter and who had
even killed the Pralambasura demon with His club. When Krsna saw
Balarama finally defeated by Sridama, who was using only a small
stick, Krsna became filled with pleasure and began to look upon
Sridima with great wonder. In this instance there is a mixture of
astonishment, fraternity and chivalry in devotional service. The fra-
ternity and chivalry are considered as the parts, and the astonishment
is considered as the whole.

Expert analyzers of these various kinds of mellows instruct us that
when different mellows overlap one another, the mellow which is the
