One should meditate upon the Lord’s laughter, an easy object of meditation, which shows his teeth like a row of jasmine buds with his shining, full, red lips. One should not desire to see anything except Viṣṇu who is present in one’s heart with a mind steeped in mature devotion. It has been said that one should meditate on the Lord’s pastimes in verse 19. The Lord sits on his flower bed, unable to give up closeness to his beloved’s ears, eyes nose and mouth out of greed for the fragrance of his beloved. He watches as she becomes frightened of a humming of a bee, and starts waving her arms and cloth, and moving her neck and eyes about restlessly. Pitifully she cries out, “O king of enjoyers! I fall at your feet. Please drive this evil thing away!” One should meditate on loud laugher of the Lord as he says, “O king of the bees! Do not leave her. Enjoy her!” Without effort, spontaneously, this becomes the object of meditation (dhyānāyanam). That is because of its sweetness. With the laughter one can see the profuse splendour of his lips and his row of fine teeth like jasmine buds. One should not desire to see anything else in ones heart except Viṣṇu who is seen in the heart. One should not desire to know anything else in one’s heart, since there is nothing greater than this essence of all goals. This bewilderment through tasting bliss is the highest samādhi for the devotees. The third aṅga of nine-fold bhakti consisting of meditation on the sweet form, qualities, and pastimes of the avataras of the Lord has been described in the present context of aṣṭāṅga-yoga to attract the great yogīs and drown them in the ocean of bhakti-rasa. pariniṣṭhito 'pi nairguṇya uttama-śloka-līlayā gṛhīta-cetā rājarṣe ākhyānaṁ yad adhītavān Though I was fixed in brahman and beyond the guṇas, my mind became attracted to the pastimes of the Lord. I thus learned his pastimes. SB 2.1.9 advaita-vīthī-pathikair upāsyāḥ svānanda-siṁhāsana-labdha-dīkṣāḥ śaṭhena kenāpi vayaṁ haṭhena dāsī-kṛtā gopa-vadhū-viṭena Although I was worshiped by those on the path of monism and initiated into self-realization through the yoga system, I have nonetheless been forcibly turned into a maidservant by some cunning boy who is always joking with the gopīs. Bilvamaṅgala, quoted in Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu 3.1.44 These verses show that great yogīs like Śukadeva and Bilvamaṅgala drowned in bhakti-rasa by the mercy of great devotees.