In plain words
The grace of God is what is truly special
On this festival of Sankrānti the farmers fill the sheds of their homes with the fruit of their own toil and rejoice. The influence of the sun, once it has entered this line of Makara, travels in the northern direction. In the heart of every man there shine what are called the six cakras. Of these, two are the chief. One is the heart cakra; the second is the sahasrāra cakra. The heart cakra has eight petals. So it was called the eight-petalled form. The Lord of the eight petals is God, and so the Bhāgavatam taught that these eight petals are God's queens. It is the sun that is lord of the eight petals. He it is who shines in the form of the sun and brings everything to the world, God: without the sun there is no world at all. All creation comes forth from the sun. The sun is the very form of God. These eight petals came to be divided into eight regions of the earth. To win such eight petals, we need the grace of God. If man is to win these eight parts, he must make the effort that earns the grace of God. In the past the great ṛṣis and yogis took the heart, these eight petals, as their base, entered the sahasrāra, and went on experiencing joy. This sahasrāra has a thousand petals. The lotus of the heart has eight petals. In the petals of this sahasrāra, each petal holds 16 kalās. It was on this basis that the Bhāgavatam taught that God is full with 16 kalās. A thousand petals with sixteen kalās each make 16,000. The 16,000 petals were believed to be the Gopīs. The eight petals were believed to be Kṛṣṇa's queens. One meaning of ‘go’ is the Veda. The second meaning is the cow, the third the earth, the fourth speech: four meanings have been taught for the word ‘go’. The Veda, the cow, the earth, speech. The Gopīs were those who chanted the Veda. Those who protected the cows were the Gopīs; those who nourished the earth were the Gopīs. Those who showed forth the form of God by their speech were the Gopīs. That is why the Gopīs went on describing Him as ‘full of Brahman as sound, full of all that moves and does not move’. God has one name, Klīṃ; the second name is Kṛṣṇāya; the third, Govindāya.