DISAPPOINTMENT<\/p>\n
When one is forced to act in a way that is forbidden, or to refrain from acting in a way that is proper, he becomes regretful and thinks himself dishonored. At that time there is a sense of disappointment. In this kind of disappointment one becomes full of anxiety, sheds tears, changes bodily color, feels humility and breathes heavily.<\/p>\n
When K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, in punishing the K\u0101liya serpent, appeared to have drowned Himself in the poisonous water of the Yamun\u0101, Nanda Mah\u0101r\u0101ja addressed Ya\u015bod\u0101-dev\u012b thus: \u201cMy dear wife, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a has gone deep into the water, and so there is no longer any need to maintain our bodies, which are so full of sinful activities! Let us also enter into the poisonous water of the Yamun\u0101 and compensate for the sinful activities of our lives!\u201d This is an instance of severe shock, wherein the devotee becomes greatly disappointed.<\/p>\n
When K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a left V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana, Subala, His intimate friend, decided to leave also. While leaving, Subala was contemplating that without K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a there was no longer any pleasure to be found in V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana. The analogy is given that as the bees go away from a flower that has no honey, Subala left V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana when he found that there was no longer any relishable transcendental pleasure there.<\/p>\n
In D\u0101na-keli-kaumud\u012b \u015ar\u012bmat\u012b R\u0101dh\u0101r\u0101\u1e47\u012b addresses one of Her friends in this manner: \u201cMy dear friend, if I cannot hear of the glorious activities of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, it is better for Me to become deaf. And because I am now unable to see Him, it would be good for Me to be a blind woman.\u201d This is another instance of disappointment due to separation from K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a.<\/p>\n
There is a statement in the Hari-va\u1e41\u015ba wherein Satyabh\u0101m\u0101, one of the queens of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a in Dv\u0101rak\u0101, tells her husband, \u201cMy dear K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, since I heard N\u0101rada glorifying Rukmi\u1e47\u012b before You, I can understand that there is no need of any talking about myself!\u201d This is an instance of disappointment caused by envy. Rukmi\u1e47\u012b and Satyabh\u0101m\u0101 were co-wives, and because K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a was husband of both, there naturally was some feminine envy between them. So when Satyabh\u0101m\u0101 heard the glories of Rukmi\u1e47\u012b, she was envious of her and thus became disappointed.<\/p>\n
In the Tenth Canto, fifty-first chapter, verse 47 of the \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam, there is this statement: \u201cMy dear K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, I cannot say that it is only other people who are implicated in material existence because I too am much entangled with the bodily concept of life. I am always too anxious about my family, home, wife, wealth, land and kingdom. And because I have been so maddened by this material atmosphere, I am thinking now that my life has simply been spoiled.\u201d This statement is an instance of disappointment caused by lamentation.<\/p>\n
According to Bharata Muni, this disappointment is inauspicious. But there are other learned scholars who have accepted such disappointment as being in the mood of neutrality and as being a preservative of ecstatic love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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