In plain words
Following the ancient tradition of those days, all the hut-dwellers of Vrepalle used to light their lamps at Yaśodā's house and carry them home. In those days there was the belief, ‘If we bring the light of the great house into our house, we too will become people of a great house; we will become pure like them.’ Even now in some villages people set up a small window-like niche in front of the house and light a lamp in it, in the evening. A daughter-in-law had newly come to that Vrepalle. That day it was her turn. She was to go to Yaśodā's house and light her lamp. In her mind: ‘Oh! For so many days I have wanted to see Kṛṣṇa. Till now I have never been able to see Kṛṣṇa. Now the chance has come. Perhaps Kṛṣṇa will appear somewhere there!’ she thought as she came along. That gopī's name was Suguṇa. When Suguṇa went to Nanda's house and was lighting her lamp, Kṛṣṇa appeared to her in that lamp; because she was always thinking of Kṛṣṇa, she forgot herself and stood gazing at that lamp alone. Though her hand was burning, she paid it no heed at all and stayed gazing joyfully at the lamp. The other women and girls who had gone to light their lamps saw this sight and were amazed.
He appeared to our Suguṇa, they say, Gopāla, in Nanda's house, they say, He appeared in the lamp, they say......
Singing this song, they began to dance with joy.
To think, ‘Kṛṣṇa is mine, mine,’ is only to swell one's Ahaṅkāra! The people of Dvārakā were filled with such Ahaṅkāra. But the gopīs did not speak like that. ‘We are Yours,’ they said. This is the mark of those who have surrendered.