In plain words
Whatever you tell me, I will listen to it. I have no other refuge. Your presence is my treasure.
That such a holy state has come to me in this birth: this I will never give up. You are the … witness for me and for all.' As Padmāvatī spoke these words, word by word, Jayadeva's heart melted. 'I thought I alone was the devotee. This maiden is a devotee greater than I,' he thought. So, as time went on and on, the two of them were married. But what was their work, always? Jayadeva singing, Padmāvatī dancing. In this way the vibration of Bhakti and surrender filled the whole house. For them there was neither food nor sleep. The neighbours all around rejoiced greatly that such a marriage must be the good fortune of many births. This news reached Lakṣmaṇasena. The king's wife, the queen, had Padmāvatī brought to her house. Every day she would talk with her and find joy in her teaching. In this way the queen spent her time. Padmāvatī, for her part, would not speak a single word of worldly things. Whatever word she said, whatever game she played, whatever she spoke, it was Kṛṣṇa's words alone. Kṛṣṇa's feelings alone. Kṛṣṇa's stories alone. The queen too changed a great deal. While things were so, the queen, talking with Padmāvatī, shed tears. 'Why are you shedding tears?' Padmāvatī asked. 'My brother-in-law has died. The news has come. That is why I am grieving,' she said. Then Padmāvatī said, 'Birth and death are natural to this body. A body that is born cannot but perish. It is only a bubble of water. Taking it as our support, we must journey to the goal of our life. The body too keeps moving on with time. It is not right for you to grieve over so small a thing, my Queen,' she said. Then, looking at Padmāvatī, she took a little courage: 'Padmāvatī, I have no grief at my brother-in-law's death; but keeping to the custom of those days, my elder sister performed sahagamana on the pyre. With her life full in her, she entered the fire. I could not bear to watch that sahagamana. That is a body without life. This is a body with the five prāṇas. For a body still alive to die in fire, how painful it must be!' As she was saying this, Padmāvatī smiled. 'Padmāvatī! Do you feel no grief? You are laughing like this!' the queen asked.
'Amma, when the husband has died, the moment she hears the news the wife too should leave her life. To perform sahagamana is daring, but it is not natural,' said Padmāvatī. It is not sacrifice. This is natural to a woman. It is simply something natural. A forced death is not good. At that word the queen grew very angry. She grew angry that Padmāvatī had not approved of what her elder sister did.