In plain words
Having eyes, they turned blind, and Your auspicious form they could not behold; having ears, they turned deaf, and Your most enchanting song they did not learn to hear. With the Paramātma in the lotus of the hand, why crave this wretched worldly life?
Alas, how many have no eyes! Having eyes, what is the use? How many could see You? No one saw You. It is enough for me if I have one eye that sees You. Has anyone heard Your flute's song? No one has heard it. I do not want all these. Because, while You are there like Mount Meru that gives everything, why do I need the coins of this world? O Gopāla, You are not merely a herdsman of cattle. You are Gopāla Himself.’ ‘How did you come to know it?’ ‘In Your sweet words themselves Your svarūpa becomes visible to me. God always speaks in a sweet way. That is why:
Sweet are the eyes, sweet is the speech, sweet is the heart, sweet is the hand, sweet are the feet: O Lord of Madhurā, sweet, sweet.
Everything is sweet.
That is why Tulasīdāsa said it. Lotus hand, lotus feet, lotus face, lotus eyes: so with the lotus, for God. Why did he compare Him with lotuses? Where are lotuses born? They are born in the mud. Where is it they live? They live in the water. They do not take in the mud they were born in. Then they do not take in the water they stand in. Without mud, or without water, these lotuses cannot live a moment. I was born in the mud called past birth. Kṛta-yuga, Tretā-yuga, Dvāpara-yuga, past birth: all of it is mud. I stood on the water called the present. Without this present I cannot stand. Without the past too I cannot be. So, though in both, I do not take in either. What is the reason? To be in it and yet not take it in: that itself is the right meaning of the lotus. So you are in the present. On what? You stay on that which is called the world. Do not take this world into you.