Text 275] The Residents of Varanasi Become Vaisnavas 445
TRANSLATION

Devotional service to Krsna is exactly like a pleasing, jubilant forest of lotus
flowers wherein there is ample honey. | 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 Krsna day and night, their
mental speculation will be completely transcendentally satisfied.

TEXT 274
MNA-SiCdA SSRa, RADA SA,
TCS ACY scaA Fears |
Facsler VARIA, Mel ae aera,
SS-RH PACH Bll |i 298 |i
nand-bhavera bhakta-jana, harnsa-cakravaka-gana,
yate sabe’ karena vihara
krsna-keli sumrnala, yaha pai sarva-kdla,
bhakta-hamsa karaye ahara
SYNONYMS

nana-bhavera bhakta-jana—devotees relishing relationships with Krsna in
different ecstasies; hariisa-cakravaka-gana—compared to swans and cakravaka
birds; yate—in that place; sabe’—all; karena vihara—enjoy life; krsma-keli—the
pastimes of Krsna; su-mrnala—sweet buds; yaha pai—which one can get; sarva-
kala—eternally; bhakta-harnsa—the devotees, who are just like swans; karaye —
do; ahara—eating.

TRANSLATION

The devotees who have a relationship with Krsna are like the swans and
cakravaka birds that play in the forest of lotus flowers. The buds of those lotus
flowers are the pastimes of Krsna, and they are edibles for the swanlike devo-
tees. Lord Sri Krsna is always engaged in His transcendental pastimes;
therefore the devotees, following in the footsteps of Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu, can always eat those lotus buds, for they are the pastimes of the
Lord.

TEXT 275
GAR Acaiaca ftw, «—«- RADU ATS Raw,
Wea) SS) sae Fara |
