The Ecstacy of the Lord and His Devotees 123

anger, fraternity and devotion. There are special flavors of friendship with
the Supreme Lord, as manifested in friends such as Subal. There the devotion
increases up to Bhava.

The different flavors are also divided into two kinds of ecstasy, called
Yoga and Biyoga, or meeting and separation. In the relish of friendship and
parenthood, the feelings of meeting and separation are various.

The situations known as Rudha and Adhirudha are possible in the flavor
or conjugal love. Conjugal love, as exhibited by the queens at Dwarka, is
called Rudha, and the conjugal love exhibited at Vrindaban by the damsels
of Vraja is called Adhirudha. The highest perfections of Adhirudha affection
in conjugal love can be divided into two: when they are actually getting
together it is called Madana, and when they are separated it is called Mohana.
In the ecstasy of Madana there are symptoms of kissing one another, and in
the ecstasy of Mohana there are two kinds of symptoms: Udghurna and Chitra-
jalpa. There are altogether ten divisions in the Chitrajalpa platform. In the
Srimad Bhagwatam there is a portion known as Bhramorgita, and different kinds
of Chitrajalpa are mentioned there. Udghurna is a symptom of separation,
and there is also the symptom called transcendental insanity. In that trans-
cendental insanity one thinks that he himself has become the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead. In such an ecstasy he imitates the symptoms of Krishna
in different ways.

There are two kinds of dresses in conjugal love. They are called Sambhoga
and Bipralambha. On the Sambhoga platform the dresses are unlimited, and
on the Bipralambha platform they are four in number.

The ecstasy exhibited before the meeting of the love and the beloved,
and the ecstasy between them after meeting, and the state of mind of not
meeting the beloved is called Bipralambha, and that Bipralambha or previous
state of love is a nourishing element for meeting afterwards. When the lover
and beloved meet all of a sudden and embrace one another, feeling an ecstasy
of happiness, that state of mind is called Sambhoga. Sambhoga ecstasy is also
known, in different situations, by four names: 1. Samksipta, 2. Samkirna,
3. Sampanna, 4. Samriddhiman. Such symptoms are also visible during dreams.

The state of being before actually meeting one another is called Purvaraga.
The obstacles to the meeting of the lover and the beloved are called mana,
or anger. When the lover and beloved are separated in different places, that
sense is called Pravas. And the feelings of separation which are present even
during the meeting, under certain conditions, are called love anxieties. This
anxiety of love is exhibited in the Srimad Bhagwatam, Tenth Canto, Ninetieth
