śuna - please hear; bāndhava - My friends; kṛṣṇera mādhurī - the sweetness of Lord Kṛṣṇa; yāra - for which; lobhe - by the greed; mora mana - My mind; chāḍi' - giving up; loka-veda-dharma - social and Vedic religious principles; yogī hañā - having become a yogī; ha-ila bhikhārī - has become a beggar.

“My dear friends,” He said, “please hear of Kṛṣṇa’s sweetness. Because of a great desire for that sweetness, My mind has given up all social and Vedic religious principles and taken to the profession of begging, exactly like a mystic yogī.