Text 21] Chanting the Song Sung by Lord Śiva
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kṛṣṇa-bhakta — niṣkāma, ataeva ‘śānta’  (Cc. Madhya 19.149). A devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa is always peaceful because he has no desire, whereas the  yogīs, karmīs  and  jñānīs  have so many desires to fulfill. One may argue that the devotees have desires, for they wish to go home, back to Godhead, but such a desire does not agitate the mind. Although he wishes to go back to Godhead, a devotee is satisfied in any condition of life. Consequently the word  mahan-manaḥ  is used in this verse to indicate that the reservoir of water was as calm and quiet as the mind of a great devotee.
TEXT 21
नीलरक्तोत्पलाम्भोजकहारेन्दीवराकरम् । 
    हंससारसचक्राह्वकारण्डवनिकूजितम् ॥२१॥
nīla-raktotpalāmbhoja- 
    kahlārendīvarākaram 
    haṁsa-sārasa-cakrāhva- 
    kāraṇḍava-nikūjitam
nīla —blue;  rakta —red;  utpala —lotus;  ambhoja —born from the water;  kahlāra —another kind of lotus;  indīvara —another kind of lotus;  ākaram —the mine;  haṁsa —swans;  sārasa —cranes;  cakrāhva —the ducks of the name;  kāraṇḍava —birds of the name;  nikūjitam —vibrated by their sounds.
TRANSLATION
In that great lake there were different types of lotus flowers. Some of them were bluish, and some of them were red. Some of them grew at night, some in the day, and some, like the  indīvara  lotus flower, in the evening. Combined together, the lotus flowers filled the lake so full that the lake appeared to be a great mine of such flowers. Consequently on the shores there were swans and cranes,  cakravāka ,  kāraṇḍava  and other beautiful water birds, standing about.
PURPORT
The word  ākaram  (mine) is significant in this verse, for the reservoir of water appeared like a mine from which different types of lotus flowers were produced. Some of the lotus flowers grew during the day, some at night and some in the evening, and accordingly they had different names and different colors. All these flowers were present on that lake, and because the lake was so calm and quiet and filled with lotus flowers, superior