Verse Text
nindāyās tu vibhāvatvaṁ vaivarṇyāmarṣayor matam |
asūyāyāṁ punas tasyāḥ kathitaivānubhāvatā ||200||
Translation
Criticism or other actions are considered the cause of change of color (sāttvika-bhāva) and amarṣa (indignation, vyabhicāri-bhāva), and the effect of asūyā (envy, vyabhicāri-bhāva).
Purport (Nectar of Devotion)
When a person is envious or defamed, there may be a change in the color of the body. This may be classified as vibhāva, or subecstasy. Sometimes illusion, collapse and strong anxiety are also considered to be vibhāva. When there are many such symptoms, they can simply be grouped together under ecstatic love.
Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī says that fright, sleep, fatigue, laziness and the madness of intoxication are sometimes grouped under continuous symptoms of ecstatic love, and they are due to a strong attraction.
False argument, determination, steadiness, remembrance, joyfulness, ignorance, humility and unconsciousness are also different symptoms of ecstatic love. Dependence is also grouped under ecstatic love, and this can be divided into superior dependence and inferior dependence. The direct differentiations between superior and inferior dependence are ascertained by Rūpa Gosvāmī and will be presented in due course.