Å«cur mukundaika-dhiyo
gira unmatta-vaj jaá¸am
cintayantyo 'ravindÄká¹£aá¹
tÄni me gadataḥ śṛṇu
Å«cuḥ - they spoke; mukunda - upon Lord Kṛṣṇa; eka - exclusively; dhiyaḥ - whose minds; giraḥ - words; unmatta - crazed persons; vat - as; jaá¸am - stunned; cintayantyaḥ - thinking; aravinda-aká¹£am - about the lotus-eyed Lord; tÄni - these (words); me - from me; gadataḥ - who am telling; śṛṇu - please hear.
The queens would become stunned in ecstatic trance, their minds absorbed in Kṛṣṇa alone. Then, thinking of their lotus-eyed Lord, they would speak as if insane. Please hear these words from me as I relate them.
ÅšrÄ«la ViÅ›vanÄtha CakravartÄ« ṬhÄkura explains that this superficial appearance of insanity in Lord Kṛṣṇa’s queens, as if they had become intoxicated by dhattÅ«ra or some other hallucinogenic drug, was in fact the manifestation of the sixth progressive stage of pure love of Godhead, technically known as prema-vaicitrya. ÅšrÄ«la RÅ«pa GosvÄmÄ« refers to this variety of anurÄga in his Ujjvala-nÄ«lamaṇi (15.134):
priyasya sannikarṣe ’pi
premotkará¹£a-svabhÄvataḥ
yÄ viÅ›leá¹£a-dhiyÄrtis tat
prema-vaicitryam ucyate
“When, as a natural by-product of one’s extreme love, one feels the distress of separation even in the direct presence of the beloved, this state is called prema-vaicitrya.â€
