SB 1.6.16 (1962)
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT No. 1
Dhayatos charnambhojan bhavanirjita chetasa Outkantha ashrukala ahshsyn hridi asit me shanaihr hari
ENGLISH SYNONYMS
Dhyatos—thus meditating upon, Charnambhojam—lotus feet of the Personality of Godhead localised, Bhavanirjita—mind transformed into transcendental love for the Lord, Chetasa—all mental activities (thinking feeling and willing), Outkantha—eagerness, Ashrukala—tears rolled down, Akshsya—of the eyes, Hridi—within my heart, Asit—appeared, Me—mine, Shanair—without delay, Hari—the Personality of Godhead.
TRANSLATION
As soon as I began to meditate upon the lotus feet of the Personality of Godhead with my mind transformed into transcendental love, tears rolled down from eyes and after that the Lord Personality of Godhead Sri Krishna appeared on the lotus of my heart.
PURPORT
The word Bhava is significant here. This Bhava stage is attained after transcendental affection for the Lord. The first initial stage is called Shraddha or liking for the Supreme Lord and in order to increase that liking one has to associate with pure devotees of the Lord. The third stage is to practise the prescribed rules and regulations in the matter of devotional service and this will perfect in dissipation of all sorts of misgivings and removal of all personal deficiencies in the matter of progress in devotional service.
When all misgivings and personal deficiencies are removed there is a standard faith in the transcendental matter and the taste for it increases in greater proportion. This stage leads to attraction and after this there is Bhava or the prior stage of unalloyed love for God. All the above different states are but different stages of development of transcendental love. The mind being surcharged with transcendental love there is strong feeling of separation which leads to eight different kinds of ecstacies. Tears from the eyes of a devotee is an automatic reaction of such separation and because Shri Narada Muni in his previous birth attained that stage very quickly after his departure from home, it was quite possible for him to perceive actual presence of the Lord which he tangibly experienced by his developed spiritual senses without any material tinge.