In plain words
We are reading. We are listening, but we are not eating. That is why the people of Bhārata, though they have practised so many kinds of sādhana for many births, are unable to reach the higher place. Only when we put even one or two of them into practice do we become worthy of this Ānanda. When we look a little into the special meaning of today's holy festival, we have regarded only the event of history, Kṛṣṇa killing Narakāsura and saving the people from his clutches, as what makes this a joyful, auspicious day. Only when we first recognise the principle of Kṛṣṇa do we become fit to understand the principle of Naraka.
Kṛṣṇa means the very form of the five elements. Kṛṣṇa is the very form of the five prāṇas. Klīṃ kṛṣṇāya govindāya gopījana vallabhāya svāhā: that is the essence of the Bhāgavatam. The five prāṇas. Klīṃ means earth. Kṛṣṇāya is water, govindāya fire, gopī jana vallabhāya air, svāhā space. So when we recognise the truth that the Paramātma is the very form of the five elements, no place is to be found in this world without the five elements. The five elements are everywhere. In this body made of the five elements, the five elements are present. These five elements trouble only the body made of the five elements; the Ātma is free of the five elements, so no one can harm it in any way. In the Bhāgavatam they have described Kṛṣṇa in many ways, in ways that make no sense. They have criticised Him in many ways. When people who do not know the meaning keep on criticising, what comes of it is only senseless criticism.
In every human body there are six cakras. The human body is the very form of these six cakras. Of these, two cakras are the chief. One is the heart cakra. The second is the sahasrāra cakra. These were called the heart-lotus and the sahasrāra lotus. In this heart-lotus there are eight petals. These eight petals are the eight worlds. The eight quarters. The eight guardians. The eight lands. It is because He kept these eight petals under His control that they said Kṛṣṇa had eight wives. They thought of Him as the lord of the eight petals. They are called the eight queens. To say the eight queens does not mean eight wives. He is the one who keeps the eight petals under His control; so what is in the pati's charge is the sati. That is what it means. He who sustains is the bhartā. What is sustained is the bhāryā. Thus. That is all; it is not husband and wife as in the world. It is because they took meanings of this kind that so many criticisms arose about the Bhāgavatam.