Chapter One: Rāgamayī Bhakti and Its Vaishnava Tradition
—tears, horripilation, and similar signs may sometimes occur without even a semblance of sattva; these are called devoid of sattva. Embodied states produced by anger, fear, and similar responses in beings hostile to the Lord are called contrary. These semblances appear only in people whose minds are naturally soft, or superficially soft while inwardly hard.
Transitory or Moving Feelings
Feelings that turn especially toward the enduring emotion and move through it are called transitory. They are recognised through speech, the eyebrows and eyes, the other bodily organs, and consequent expressions arising from sattva. There are thirty-three: self-disgust, despondency, humility, enervation, fatigue, intoxication, pride, apprehension, fright, agitation, madness, seizure, illness, bewilderment, death-like collapse, indolence, stupor, shame, concealment of feeling, recollection, deliberation, anxiety, judgement, fortitude, joy, longing, fierceness, indignation, envy, fickleness, sleepiness, sleep, and awakening. They are also called moving feelings because they direct the movement of the dominant emotion.
The Enduring Emotion
That which, like a great king, remains firmly established after subduing both compatible feelings such as laughter and incompatible feelings such as anger is called the enduring emotion. In the devotional science, rati directed toward God is the enduring emotion. This rati is principal or secondary. The principal form is further distinguished as self-directed and other-directed. In both these modes, principal rati is fivefold: pure affection, reverential love, friendship, parental affection, and belovedness.
Pure rati has three forms: general, transparent, and peaceful. The rati of ordinary people that has not attained a particular condition such as reverential love is called general. The practitioner's rati that assumes various forms through various practices and association with different kinds of devotees is called transparent. Like a crystal gem, it takes on the form of whichever kind of devotee one associates with. The rati found in people predominantly characterised by tranquillity—the mind's freedom from alternatives—arises from the understanding of God as the Supreme Self and is without even a trace of possessive intimacy; it is called peaceful rati.
When one regards those lower than oneself as recipients of the Lord's grace and one's rati proceeds toward him with the understanding that he is to be worshipped, that rati is called reverential love. Such attachment to God destroys every love fixed upon anything other than him.
Those who sustain the conviction of equality with the Lord are called his friends. The rati constituted of trusting intimacy that arises from this equality is called friendship. That intimacy gives rise to joking, laughter, and similar exchanges, while leaving no room for distress within the relationship.