‘Ecstatic’ feelings may be interpreted as quasi mystical visitations. How does this relate to the importance of Harinam Sankirtana and Srila Prabhupada’s insistence on examinations and scholarship? Is bhakti primarily ‘feeling?’ I thought Drutakarma prabhu addressed this question nicely when in 2000 he wrote : “This clash of images –science and street religion—is nothing new. For ages, the bhakti tradition in India has always been a mixture of two seemingly contradictory elements – the emotional statement of bhakti through public chanting and profoundly deep scholarship.”