176 Teachings of Lord Chaitanya

ning, and it has no end; therefore, temporary sense gratification or a desire
for liberation cannot compare with the transcendental nature of love of God.
This love of God is called the fifth dimension in the human goals of life. Com-
pared with the ocean of love of transcendental pleasure, the impersonal Brah-
man conception cannot measure as even one drop of water.

Lord Chaitanya now explained that His Spiritual Master had confirmed
the ecstatic situation of His chanting the Holy Name of God, and had con-
firmed that the essence of all Vedic literature is the attainment of love of God-
head. His Spiritual Master said that Lord Chaitanya was fortunate enough to
have attained such a stage of love of Godhead. By attainment of such trans-
cendental love of Godhead, one’s heart becomes very anxious to attain direct
contact with the Lord; and with that transcendental sentiment he sometimes
laughs, sometimes cries, sometimes sings, sometimes dances like a madman,
and sometimes he traverses hither and thither.

There are various ecstatic symptoms of the body: crying, changing the
color of the body, madness, bereavement, silence, feeling proud, ecstasy,
gentleness, and, often, the person in love of Godhead dances. Such dancing
puts him into the ocean of the nectar of love of Krishna.

Lord Chaitanya’s Spiritual Master said to Him: “It is very good that You
have attained such a perfectional stage of love of Godhead, and by Your
attainment I am very much obliged to You.”

The father becomes more enlightened when he sees his son advance beyond
himself. Similarly, when the Spiritual Master sees a disciple advancing, he
takes more pleasure in that than in his own advancement. Lord Chaitanya’s
Spiritual Master blessed Him, telling Him to “dance, sing and propagate this
Samkirtan movement, and by instructing people about Krishna, try to deliver
them from the nescience.”

His Spiritual Master taught Him a very nice verse from Srimad Bhagwatam
which is from the Eleventh Canto, Second Chapter: “A person who is con-
stantly engaged in devotional service to Krishna by chanting His Holy Name
becomes so transcendentally attached to the chanting that his heart becomes
softened without any extraneous endeavor. In such a condition of softened
heart he exhibits transcendental ecstasies, sometimes by laughing, sometimes
by crying, sometimes by singing, sometimes by dancing—not exactly in an
artistic way, but just like a madman.”

Lord Chaitanya informed Prakasananda Saraswati, “I have full faith
in my Spiritual Master’s words, and therefore I am always engaged in the matter
of chanting Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/Hare
