श्वफल्कपुत्रो भगवत्प्रपन्नः ।
यः कृष्णपादाङ्कितमार्गपांसु
ष्वचेष्टत प्रेमविभिन्नधैर्यः ॥३२॥
kaccid budhaḥ svasty anamÄ«va Äste
śvaphalka-putro bhagavat-prapannaḥ
yaḥ kṛṣṇa-pÄdÄá¹…kita-mÄrga-pÄá¹suá¹£v
aceá¹£á¹ata prema-vibhinna-dhairyaḥ
kaccit - whether; budhaḥ - very learned; svasti - well; anamÄ«vaḥ - faultless; Äste - does exist; Å›vaphalka-putraḥ - the son of Åšvaphalka, AkrÅ«ra; bhagavat - regarding the Personality of Godhead; prapannaḥ - surrendered; yaḥ - one who; kṛṣṇa - the Lord; pÄda-aá¹…kita - marked with footprints; mÄrga - path; pÄá¹suá¹£u - in the dust; aceá¹£á¹ata - exhibited; prema-vibhinna - lost in transcendental love; dhairyaḥ - mental equilibrium.
Please tell me whether Akrūra, the son of Śvaphalka, is doing well. He is a faultless soul surrendered unto the Personality of Godhead. He once lost his mental equilibrium due to his ecstasy of transcendental love and fell down on the dust of a road which was marked with the footprints of Lord Kṛṣṇa.
When AkrÅ«ra came to Vá¹›ndÄvana in search of Kṛṣṇa, he saw the footprints of the Lord on the dust of Nanda-grÄma and at once fell on them in ecstasy of transcendental love. This ecstasy is possible for a devotee who is fully absorbed in incessant thoughts of Kṛṣṇa. Such a pure devotee of the Lord is naturally faultless because he is always associated with the supremely pure Personality of Godhead. Constant thought of the Lord is the antiseptic method for keeping oneself free from the infectious contamination of the material qualities. The pure devotee of the Lord is always in company with the Lord by thinking of Him. Yet, in the particular context of time and place, the transcendental emotions take a different turn, and this breaks the mental equilibrium of the devotee. Lord Caitanya displayed the typical example of transcendental ecstasy, as we can understand from the life of this incarnation of God.
