'anubhÄva' — smita, ná¹›tya, gÄ«tÄdi udbhÄsvara
stambhÄdi — 'sÄttvika' anubhÄvera bhitara
anubhÄva - subordinate ecstasy; smita - smiling; ná¹›tya - dancing; gÄ«ta-Ädi - songs and so on; udbhÄsvara - symptoms of bodily manifestation; stambha-Ädi - being stunned and others; sÄttvika - natural; anubhÄvera bhitara - within the category of subordinate ecstasies.
“The subordinate ecstasies are smiling, dancing and singing, as well as different manifestations in the body. The natural ecstasies, such as being stunned, are considered among the subordinate ecstasies [anubhÄva].
The Bhakti-rasÄmá¹›ta-sindhu (2.2.1) describes anubhÄva as follows:
anubhÄvÄs tu citta-stha- bhÄvÄnÄm avabodhakÄḥ
te bahir vikriyÄ prÄyÄḥ proktÄ udbhÄsvarÄkhyayÄ
“The many external ecstatic symptoms, or bodily transformations which indicate ecstatic emotions in the mind and which are also called udbhÄsvara, are the anubhÄvas, or subordinate ecstatic expressions of love.†Some of these symptoms are dancing, falling down and rolling on the ground, singing and crying very loudly, bodily contortions, loud vibrations, yawning, deep breathing, disregard for others, the frothing of saliva, mad laughter, spitting, hiccups and other, similar symptoms. All these symptoms are divided into two divisions — śīta and ká¹£epaṇa. Singing, yawning and so on are called śīta. Dancing and bodily contortions are called ká¹£epaṇa.
In his AnubhÄá¹£ya, ÅšrÄ«la BhaktisiddhÄnta SarasvatÄ« ṬhÄkura quotes the following verse from the Vedic literature describing udbhÄsvara:
udbhÄsante sva-dhÄmnÄ«ti proktÄ udbhÄsvarÄ budhaiḥ
nÄ«vy-uttarÄ«ya-dhammilla- sraá¹sanaá¹ gÄtra-moá¹anam
já¹›mbhÄ ghrÄṇasya phullatvaá¹ niÅ›vÄsÄdyÄÅ› ca te matÄḥ
“The ecstatic symptoms manifest in the external body of a person in ecstatic love are called udbhÄsvara by learned scholars. 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-lÄ«lÄ 14.167.
