nava - nine; yogī-īśvara - great saintly yogīs; janma haite - from the very birth; sādhaka - practicers; jñānī - well versed in transcendental knowledge; vidhi - Lord Brahmā; śiva - Lord Śiva; nārada - the great sage Nārada; mukhe - in their mouths; kṛṣṇa-guṇa śuni' - hearing the transcendental qualities of Kṛṣṇa.

“From their very births, the nine great mystic yogīs [Yogendras] were impersonal philosophers of the Absolute Truth. But because they heard about Lord Kṛṣṇa’s qualities from Lord Brahmā, Lord Śiva and the great sage Nārada, they also became Kṛṣṇa’s devotees.