DEVASTATION<\/p>\n
When a person is confused by simultaneous happiness and tribulation and does not know what to do, this state of confusion is called pralaya, or devastation. In this condition of pralaya one sometimes falls down on the ground, and all the symptoms of ecstatic love become manifest. When the gop\u012bs were searching after K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a and all of a sudden He came out from the bushes and creepers, all of them became stunned and almost senseless. In this state the gop\u012bs appeared very beautiful. This is an example of pralaya, or devastation, in happiness.<\/p>\n
There are also instances of pralaya in distress. One such example is described in the Tenth Canto, thirty-ninth chapter, verse 15 of \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam, wherein \u015aukadeva Gosv\u0101m\u012b tells King Par\u012bk\u1e63it, \u201cMy dear King, when the gop\u012bs were missing K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, they were so much absorbed in meditation upon Him that all of their senses stopped functioning and they lost all bodily sense. It was as though they had become liberated from all material conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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