32 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [Madhya-lila, Ch. 23

The ecstatic symptoms manifest in the external body of a person in ecstatic love
are called by learned scholars udbhasvara. Some of these are a slackening of the
belt and a dropping of clothes and hair. Others are bodily contortions, yawning, a
trembling of the front portion of the nostrils, heavy breathing, hiccupping and
falling down and rolling on the ground. These are the external manifestations of
emotional love. Stambha and other symptoms are described in Madhya-lila
(14.167).
TEXT 52

facea-afiia - cofaat ‘azfepiay |
na fafer ‘an’ GF DA sASIAT i eR Ht

nirveda-harsadi —tetrisa ‘vyabhicari’
saba mili’ ‘rasa’ haya camatkdarakari

SYNONYMS

nirveda-harsa-adi—complete despondency, jubilation and so on; tetrisa—
thirty-three; vyabhicari—transitory elements; saba mili’—all meeting together;
rasa—the mellow; haya—becomes; camatkarakari—a causer of wonder.

TRANSLATION

“There are other ingredients beginning with complete despondency and
jubilation. Altogether there are thirty-three varieties, and when these com-
bine, the mellow becomes very wonderful.

PURPORT

Nirveda, harsa, and other symptoms are explained in Madhya-lild (14.167). The
transitory elements (vyabhicdri) are described in Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu as
follows:

, athocyante trayas trimsad-

bhava ye vyabhicarinah
visesenabhimukhyena

caranti sthayinam prati
vag-anga-sattva-slicyd ye

jfieyas te vyabhicarinah

saficarayanti bhavasya
gatim saficdrino ‘pi te

unmajjanti nimajjanti
stayiny-amrta-varidhau

Urmivad vardhayanty enam
yanti tad-rupatam ca te
