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In plain words

The Kali temple stands two and a half kos, some five miles, north of Calcutta, right on the Ganges. You step off the boat and climb a broad flight of steps, facing east, to enter the temple garden. The Paramahamsa used to bathe at this ghat. Above the steps is the chandni, a pillared porch where the temple watchmen live. Their string cots, a mango-wood chest and a brass pot or two lie about the porch here and there. When gentlemen from the neighbourhood come to bathe in the Ganges, some of them sit in the chandni rubbing oil on their bodies and chatting at their ease. Some of the sadhus, fakirs and Vaishnava men and women who come hoping to receive prasad at the guest house wait in the chandni until the bell rings for the food offering. Now and then a Bhairavi in ochre cloth sits here with a trident in her hand; when the time comes she too will make her way to the guest house. The chandni stands exactly in the middle of the twelve Siva temples: six of them just to its north and six just to its south. People passing in boats see the twelve temples from afar and say, "There is Rasmani's temple garden."