Text 2751
The Residents of Vārānasī Recome Vaisnavas
445
TRANSLATION
Devotional service to Krşna is exactly like a pleasing, jubilant forest of lotus flowers wherein there is ample honey. I request everyone to taste this honey. If all the mental speculators bring the bees of their minds into this forest of lotus flowers and jubilantly enjoy ecstatic love of Krşna day and night, their mental speculation will be completely transcendentally satisfied.
TEXT 274
নানা-ভাবের ভক্তজন, হংস-চক্রবাকগণ, যাতে সবে’ করেন বিহার । কৃষ্ণকেলি স্বন্মুণাল, যাহা পাই সর্বকাল, ভক্ত-হংস করয়ে আহার || ২৭৪ ||
nānā-bhāvera bhakta-jana, haṁsa-cakravāka-gaṇa, yāte sabe’ karena vihāra kṛṣṇa-keli sumṛṇāla, yāhā pāi sarva-kāla, bhakta-haṁsa karaye āhāra
SYNONYMS
nānā-bhāvera bhakta-jana  —devotees relishing relationships with Kṛṣṇa in different ecstasies;  haṁsa-cakravāka-gaṇa  —compared to swans and  cakravāka  birds;  yāte  —in that place;  sabe’  —all;  karena vihāra  —enjoy life;  kṛṣṇa-keli  —the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa;  su-mṛṇāla  —sweet buds;  yāhā pāi  —which one can get;  sarva-kāla  —eternally;  bhakta-haṁsa  —the devotees, who are just like swans;  karaye  —do;  āhāra  —eating.
TRANSLATION
The devotees who have a relationship with Kṛṣṇa are like the swans and cakravāka birds that play in the forest of lotus flowers. The buds of those lotus flowers are the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa, and they are edibles for the swanlike devotees. Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is always engaged in His transcendental pastimes; therefore the devotees, following in the footsteps of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, can always eat those lotus buds, for they are the pastimes of the Lord.
TEXT 275
সেই সরোবরে গিয়া, হংস-চক্রবাক হঞা, সদা তাহাঁ করহ বিলাস ।