In plain words
Unable to show his face on the second day, he set out at midnight, meaning to go to another country, and was on his way. Halfway along the road Nārada appeared. This Nārada's nature is such that if you give a naya paisa to have him bite you, you cannot get him to let go even if you give four hundred. The very moment Nārada appeared, Nārada, being the knower of the three times, took full note of the defeat the painter had met: ‘Where are you going, my dear? What has happened?’ he asked. Then, when this painter told him all that had happened, Nārada said, ‘Hey! You madman! You set out to paint Kṛṣṇa. He changes from moment to moment, doesn't He! How did you set out to paint such a Kṛṣṇa, ever new, new at every moment? But if you mean to paint such a Kṛṣṇa and win a reward from Him, I will tell you a way. By that way you will surely be able to win that reward,’ he said. He whispered something in his ear. Relying on this, the painter went to Dvārakā together with this very Nārada, and on the second day, saying, ‘Swami, I have brought Your picture, just as it should be’, he covered it with a white cloth and went in. He set it up facing the place where Kṛṣṇa sat. He drew back the curtain. ‘Swami! However many forms You change into, change into them all. Whatever form You take, that form will come in it’: so saying, he had brought and set up a pure mirror. So, in the same way, however many shapes we shape and set up for God, saying He is like this, He is like that, His true shape cannot come into them. Rather than failing in the effort to shape such shapes, when we take the thing called citta as a pure mirror, whatever form He takes, His form can be seen with perfect clarity. So you must believe that purifying the citta is itself our chief goal.