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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Texts Antya 20.67-68

যেই যেই শ্লোক জয়দেব, ভাগবতে ।

রায়ের নাটকে, যেই আর কর্ণামৃতে ॥ ৬৭ ॥

yei yei śloka jayadeva, bhāgavate

rāyera nāṭake, yei āra karṇāmṛte

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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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Tasting the Meaning of Devotional Verses

  1. 1

    Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu read Jayadeva’s Gīta-govinda and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.

  2. 2

    He also read Rāmānanda Rāya’s Jagannātha-vallabha-nāṭaka and Bilvamaṅgala Ṭhākura’s Kṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta.

  3. 3

    The various ecstatic emotions of these verses overwhelmed Him. In this way, He tasted their purports, or meanings.

How it feels

Unconditional devotion. Eight prayers move from cleansing the heart to love that endures even without reciprocation.

The mood of Antya 20 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Antya 20: The Śikṣāṣṭaka Prayers

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

Sometimes He recited verses from Jayadeva Gosvāmī’s Gīta-govinda, from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, from Śrī Rāmānanda Rāya’s Jagannātha-vallabha-nāṭaka or from Śrī Bilvamaṅgala Ṭhākura’s Kṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta. In this way, He became absorbed in ecstatic emotions.
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. yei yeiwhatever
  2. ślokaverses
  3. jayadevaJayadeva Gosvāmī
  4. bhāgavatein Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
  5. rāyera nāṭakein the drama composed by Rāmānanda Rāya
  6. yeiwhatever
  7. āraalso
  8. karṇāmṛtein the book named Kṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta, written by Bilvamaṅgala Ṭhākura
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How might you give more attention to the meaning of a devotional verse as you read?

Practice

Read one verse from a work named here and pause to consider its meaning.

Live this todayTasting the Meaning of Devotional VersesThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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