He (Vishwamitra) touched the head of Lord Sri Ram with his lotus-like hands and overwhelmed with exhilaration and joy he embraced the Lord, clasping him to his heart. The sage got so ecstatic that he virtually immersed himself in an ocean of love and affection for the Lord. (This symbolic ocean was so deep, dense and heaving that the sage got virtually drowned in its surging waves; he was unable to fathom it. The burst of exhilaration and ecstasy was so profound and intense that he could not stand against its blast and got numbed. The sage forgot about the surroundings, and his condition was like a hermit who has attained the state of transcendental existence that is possible in the higher stages of meditation, the stage known as Samadhi when the person loses awareness of even his own body and is overcome with ecstasy and bliss of the highest order.)