In plain words
I have brought the medicine that cures that suffering. You must take it, he said. By this yoga your suffering, this disease, will be cured, he said. Then the Gopīs spoke. O noble Uddhava! We have no diseases. So we need no yogas. It is enough for us to know the yoga that wins Kṛṣṇa alone, they said. What is this yoga? One Gopī spoke. Even enjoyment, enjoyed in a spirit of renunciation, is a yoga, she said. Uddhava spoke. Renunciation and enjoyment do not go together, surely. He who lives in renunciation does not look towards enjoyment. He who enjoys does not think of renunciation. So this enjoyment and renunciation do not get on together. It is hard. So how can it be a yoga? said Uddhava. Foolish man! Is this what you have learnt in the presence of Kṛṣṇa? If you give up both, the Ahaṅkāra in action and the attachment in experience, renunciation, enjoyment and yoga, all three, become one and the same, He said. Put away the Ahaṅkāra that says, I am doing it. This is the fruit that has come of the acts I did. Put away the attachment that says, I alone must enjoy it. If you give up both, the craving in attachment and the Ahaṅkāra in action, there is no difference between this enjoyment and renunciation, said the Gopīs.
In the world the rain falls. The rivers flow. The crops ripen. The sun, the moon and the rest shine. For whom is this? It is not for any one person. All human beings have an equal right to enjoy it. So natural beings have every right to enjoy the natural principle. But only a few gather the strength and the capacity to experience the supreme principle. This comes only to those who have complete faith in the Divine. So all the Gopīs, the moment they heard Kṛṣṇa's word, the moment they heard the music of the flute, left their houses and went into the woods. Uddhava too questioned them on this very point. If you have no chance even to hear Kṛṣṇa's message, what Bhakti is there in you then? What is the form of your Bhakti? he asked. They told him the essence of yoga in a single sentence. What is this, Uddhava! We have only one mind. And even that mind is not with us now. It has gone with Kṛṣṇa to Mathurā. We have no mind at all; we are without a mind. Where is the mind for us to listen to your yogas and messages? If we, like you, had ten minds, we too could have managed it this way: on one side listening to the message, on one side thinking of Kṛṣṇa, on one side obeying the mother-in-law's orders, on one side obeying the husband's orders.