In plain words
Neither by speech nor by mind can You be described, Kṛṣṇa! So each man's Ajñāna takes many kinds of wrong roads and makes his life a torment. We must try to make the light within us grow. There is no use in developing this outer, natural light. We can see the world that is shaped out of what is seen, but we cannot see the unseen principle of the Ātma. What sort of being is man? Man stands like a bridge between what is seen and what is unseen. We should not believe that what is visible is permanent. “Whatever is seen will perish.” All that we see is bound to change. They prayed Him to grant them the unseen principle of Jñāna, not this world shaped out of what is seen. In this way, all those who had suffered so many torments at Narakāsura's hands went on holding festivals with zeal after Narakāsura was slain. All this time they had lived in darkness, sunk in both darknesses, the darkness within and the darkness without; unable to understand even humanness, unable to embrace divinity, unable to see Godhood, blind and ignorant, they had gone on falling into ruin. For such people, this slaying of Narakāsura brought great joy.
Will a hungry man's hunger go on hearing the names of the five kinds of delicacies? Will a pauper's poverty go on merely hearing of the power of wealth? Will a sick man's grievous ills go on hearing all the virtues of medicine?
Merely hearing, and hearing alone, does not put an end to suffering. Only when it is experienced does that Ānanda take shape as lasting Ānanda. The Gopīs, who had suffered in so many ways, and these people experienced this Ānanda and went on keeping it as a great festival. There is one important point in lighting the lamp. There are many lamps, all together.