yei yei śloka jayadeva, bhāgavate
rāyera nāṭake, yei āra karṇāmṛte
sei sei bhāve śloka kariyā paṭhane
sei sei bhāvāveśe karena āsvādane

 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.


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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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