Live Caitanya Caritamrta · CC Madhya 14.167
The Many Ornaments of Ecstatic Love
“The transcendental ornaments of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s body include the eight sāttvikas, or transcendental symptoms, the thirty-three vyabhicārī-bhāvas, beginning with harṣa, or jubilation in natural love, and the twenty bhāvas, or ecstatic emotional ornaments.
What the purport teaches
- Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s transcendental ornaments include eight sāttvikas, or transcendental symptoms, and twenty bhāvas, or ecstatic emotional ornaments.
- They also include thirty-three vyabhicārī-bhāvas, bodily symptoms manifest in ecstatic love.
- These include dainya, meekness; smṛti, remembrance; dhṛti, forbearance; and harṣa, jubilation.
Try this today
Choose three terms from the purport and copy each with its given English meaning.
Ask yourself
What do you notice about the variety of symptoms described as manifesting in ecstatic love?
Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.
The study points are short summaries drawn from Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport; the practice and question are plain words for trying the verse today.