There are thirty-three transitory elements, known as vyabhicari ecstatic emotions. They especially wander about the permanent sentiments as assistants

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"There are thirty-three transitory elements, known as vyabhicari ecstatic emotions. They especially wander about the permanent sentiments as assistants"

CC Madhya-lila

There are thirty-three transitory elements, known as vyabhicārī ecstatic emotions. They especially wander about the permanent sentiments as assistants. They are to be known by words, by different symptoms seen in the limbs and in other parts of the body, and by the peculiar conditions of the heart.

CC Madhya 23.52, Translation and Purport:

There are other ingredients, beginning with complete despondency and jubilation. Altogether there are thirty-three varieties, and when these combine, the mellow becomes very wonderful.

Nirveda, harṣa and other symptoms are explained in Madhya-līlā 14.167. The transitory elements (vyabhicārī) are described in the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu (2.4.1-3) as follows:

athocyante trayas triṁśad-bhāvā ye vyabhicāriṇaḥ

viśeṣeṇābhimukhyena caranti sthāyinaṁ prati

vāg-aṅga-sattva-sūcyā ye jñeyās te vyabhicāriṇaḥ

sañcārayanti bhāvasya gatiṁ sañcāriṇo’pi te

unmajjanti nimajjanti stāyiny amṛta-vāridhau

ūrmi-vad vardhayanty enaṁ yānti tad-rūpatāṁ ca te

"There are thirty-three transitory elements, known as vyabhicārī ecstatic emotions. They especially wander about the permanent sentiments as assistants. They are to be known by words, by different symptoms seen in the limbs and in other parts of the body, and by the peculiar conditions of the heart. Because they set in motion the progress of the permanent sentiments, they are specifically called sañcārī, or impelling principles. These impelling principles rise up and fall back in the permanent sentiments of ecstatic love like waves in an ocean of ecstasy. Consequently they are called vyabhicārī."