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In plain words

The day began to wane. Evening was coming on. The temple servants are making ready the lamps all about. The two priests of the Kali temple and the Vishnu temple are standing waist-deep in the Ganges, purifying themselves without and within, for soon they must go to perform the arati and give the deities their evening refreshment. Young men of Dakshineswar village have come to stroll in the garden, one with a cane in his hand, another with a friend. They are walking on the embankment, breathing the pure evening breeze laden with the scent of flowers, and watching the swift Ganges of Sravan, its stream rippled with little waves. Perhaps one of them, more thoughtful than the rest, is pacing the solitary ground of the Panchavati. Sri Ramakrishna too gazed at the Ganges for a while from the western verandah.