CC Antya 20.67-68

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Antya-līlā - Chapter 20: The Śikṣāṣṭaka Prayers

Antya-līlā 20.66 - Antya-līlā 20.69

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His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

TEXTS 67-68

yei yei śloka jayadeva, bhāgavate

rāyera nāṭake, yei āra karṇāmṛte

sei sei bhāve śloka kariyā paṭhane

sei sei bhāvāveśe karena āsvādane

SYNONYMS

yei yei — whatever; śloka — verses; jayadeva — Jayadeva Gosvāmī; bhāgavate — in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam; rāyera nāṭake — in the drama composed by Rāmānanda Rāya; yei — whatever; āra — also; karṇāmṛte — in the book named Kṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta, written by Bilvamaṅgala Ṭhākura; sei sei bhāve — in those ecstatic emotions; śloka — verses; kariyā paṭhane — reading regularly; sei sei — in that particular; bhāva-āveśe — ecstatic love; karena āsvādane — He tastes.

TRANSLATION

When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu read the verses of Jayadeva 's Gīta-govinda, of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, of Rāmānanda Rāya 's drama Jagannātha-vallabha-nāṭaka, and of Bilvamaṅgala Ṭhākura 's Kṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta, He was overwhelmed by the various ecstatic emotions of those verses. Thus He tasted their purports.

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