kaccid budhah svasty anamiva aste
svaphalka-putro bhagavat-prapannah
yah krsna-padankita-marga-pamsusv
acestata prema-vibhinna-dhairyah
kaccit -- whether; budhah -- very learned; svasti -- well; anamivah -- faultless; aste -- does exist; svaphalka-putrah -- the son of Svaphalka, Akrura; bhagavat -- regarding the Personality of Godhead; prapannah -- surrendered; yah -- one who; krsna -- the Lord; pada-ankita -- marked with footprints; marga -- path; pamsusu -- in the dust; acestata -- exhibited; prema-vibhinna -- lost in transcendental love; dhairyah -- mental equilibrium.
When Akrura came to Vrndavana in search of Krsna, he saw the footprints of the Lord on the dust of Nanda-grama 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 Krsna. 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.
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