Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c8.s2.60

c8.s2.60

The most notable departure occurs in the classification of these Sāttvikas, which is entirely original. They are generally classified into (i) Snigdha (soft), which may be either directly (mukhya) or indirectly (gauṇa) connected with Kṛṣṇa, (ii) Digdha (saturated), and (iii) Rukṣa (harsh), occurring in people who have no feeling for Kṛṣṇa. They are again differentiated, with reference to the degree of excitement produced by the presence of one or more Sāttvikas, into (a) Dhūmāyita (smouldering) when there is only one Sāttvika, (b) Jvalita (flaming), when there are two or three Sāttvikas, (c) Dīpta (burning) when there are four or five Sāttvikas, and (d) Uddīpta (brightly burning), when six or all the Sāttvikas are present. The excitement, again, may last a long time (bhūri-kāla-vyāpī), may pervade many limbs (bahvāṅga-vyāpī), or may attain its climax by its own nature (svarūpeṇa-utkarṣaḥ).