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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.1.32
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 32
- kaccid budhaḥ svasty anamīva āste
- śvaphalka-putro bhagavat-prapannaḥ
- yaḥ kṛṣṇa-pādāṅkita-mārga-pāṁsuṣv
- aceṣṭata prema-vibhinna-dhairyaḥ
kaccitwhether — whether; budhaḥvery learned — very learned; svastiwell — well; anamīvaḥfaultless — faultless; āstedoes exist — does exist; śvaphalkathe son of Śvaphalka, Akrūra-putraḥthe son of Śvaphalka, Akrūra — the son of Śvaphalka, Akrūra; bhagavatregarding the Personality of Godhead — regarding the Personality of Godhead; prapannaḥsurrendered — surrendered; yaḥone who — one who; kṛṣṇathe Lord — the Lord; pādamarked with footprints-aṅkitamarked with footprints — marked with footprints; mārgapath — path; pāṁsuṣuin the dust — in the dust; aceṣṭataexhibited — exhibited; premalost in transcendental love-vibhinnalost in transcendental love — lost in transcendental love; dhairyaḥmental equilibrium — 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 Akrūra came to Vṛndāvana in search of Kṛṣṇa, he saw the footprints of the Lord on the dust of Nanda-grāma 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.