In plain words
Embodiments of Prema! In the world today some people think that cleverness alone is what matters. What use is it to have cleverness without learning? Likewise, however much learning there may be, without cleverness it is of no use. Along with cleverness there must be learning too. One who has learning but no cleverness, people look on as a fool.
The women of Vrepalle used to go every evening to the house of Yaśodā and Nanda and light their lamps there. That was the custom of those days. Their hope was that if they carried a lamp from the house of the great to their own homes, they too would become great. Even now there is such a custom in the villages. They go to the homes of the wealthy, light their own lamps from the lamp set before the house, and carry them home. But in Vrepalle some mothers-in-law would not let their daughters-in-law go to Yaśodā's house. They were afraid that, once they saw Kṛṣṇa there, these women would go about after Him like mad things. “Is there no lamp in our house? Why fetch a lamp from their house?” they would scold their daughters-in-law. Even when they gathered at the well to fetch water, all the women would talk of nothing but Kṛṣṇa. Then a new daughter-in-law came to that village. Suguṇa was her name. She had heard a great deal about the līlās of Kṛṣṇa. She did not tell her mother-in-law or her husband, but the longing to have the darśan of Kṛṣṇa somehow or other had taken deep root in her heart. She kept her desire very secret, very hidden. But Satya cannot be hidden away, held down or covered over. This whole world came forth from Satya itself.
From Satya all things were created; in Satya all creation comes to rest; where can you find a place without the glory of Satya? this itself is pure sattva; behold it!
The more secretly that new daughter-in-law kept her Bhakti for Kṛṣṇa, the more it came out into the open. She went to Yaśodā's house and, calling ‘Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa!’ to mind, was lighting her lamp. In that lamp Kṛṣṇa appeared to her. Lost in that rapture, she put her hand into the lamp, and her hand was burnt. But she had no awareness at all that her hand was burning. Just then Yaśodā came out and caught hold of Suguṇa's hand. “Why, my dear! Are you asleep? Your whole hand is getting scorched. Don't you feel the pain?” she asked. “Mother! Kṛṣṇa gave His darśan in the flame. Looking at Kṛṣṇa, I forgot my own body,” Suguṇa told her. The gopīs heard those words. Full of joy, they went through the streets dancing and singing a song. Singing what?
“To Suguṇa He appeared, they say, Gopāla in the house of Nanda, they say, in the lamp He appeared, they say.”
In this way, through the thought of God, we can forget all our sorrows and troubles and experience great Ānanda. From time immemorial devotees have experienced Ānanda through the thought of God, and have gone on spreading it and teaching it.