NArada said:
(1) You have told me, o guru, everything I wanted to know relating to the Lord. Now I want to hear about the unsurpassed path of contemplation [i.e. manasI sevA].

Ziva replied:
(2-6) You question me well, vipra, desiring the best for the whole world. I will tell you about it even though it is a secret; therefore, listen [to what] I say. The servants, friends, parents and lovers of Hari, all eternal and full of good qualities, live here (in VRndAvana), o best of sages. Just as they are described in the PurANas in their prakaTa lIlA, so do they exist in the land of VRndAvana in their nitya lIlA. He comes and goes between forest and cowherder village eternally and herds cows with His friends without the killing of demons. Also, His lovers, thinking themselves His paramours, please their dearest in secret.
(7-11) One should think of oneself there among them in the form of an enchanting woman, possessed of youth and beauty, just past puberty, conversant with the many arts and crafts, suitable for KRSNa’s enjoyment, but who, though requested by KRSNa, is opposed to enjoyment with Him, a follower of RAdhA intent upon her service, loving RAdhA even more than KRSNa, bringing about, out of love and with great care, the meetings of those two each day, and overwhelmed with the joys of their service. Visualizing oneself in this way, one should perform service there beginning from brAhma muhUrta until late at night [i.e. aSTa kAla lIlA sevA].

NArada said:
(12) I want to hear of Hari’s daily lIlA as it really is. Without knowing that lIlA how, indeed, can Hari be served in one’s mind?

Ziva said:
(13-14) I do not know that lIlA of Hari as it really is, o NArada. Go from here to see VRndAdevI; she will describe the lIlA to you. Not far from here, near KezI tIrtha, lives that servant of Govinda surrounded by her friends.

SUta said:
(15-16) Being advised thus, NArada, circumambulated Ziva and, overjoyed, bowed repeatedly to him. Then that truest of sages went to VRndA’s residence. VRndA, too, seeing NArada bowed repeatedly and said: “Best of sages, how is it that you have come here?”

NArada said:
(17) I want to know from you of the daily deeds of Hari. Describe them for me from the beginning, if I am ﬁt [to hear them], o beautiful one! 

VRndA said:
(18) Even though it is secret I will tell you, o NArada, [for] you are a devotee of KRSNa. You, however, should not reveal it; this is the greatest of mystery of mysteries.
(19-24) In the midst of beautiful VRndAvana, which is adorned with ﬁfty bowers, in a bower of desire trees, in a cottage of divine jewels They [RadhA and KRSNa] are asleep on a bed, intensely embracing each other. Though they are awakened after a while by birds, who follow my orders, They feel such joy in their intense embrace and such distress at [the thought of] breaking it, that they do not want to get up from bed even a little. Then, being repeatedly awakened from all sides by groups of sArikAs [Myna, Gracula religiosa] and parrots with various speeches, they rise from bed. Seeing the couple sitting up, their joyful girlfriends then enter and serve Them as is suitable for that time. Once again at the words of the sArikAs the couple gets up from their bed and returns to their homes, ﬁlled with fear and anxiety.
(25-29) Being awakened at daybreak by His mother, KRSNa, along with Baladeva, rises from bed and after brushing His teeth, goes, with His mother’s permission, to the cowpen surrounded by His friends. RAdhA, too, is awakened by her friends, o vipra, and rises from her bed. After brushing her teeth, she rubs oil into her body. Then, going to the bathing platform she is bathed by her servants. She [next] goes to her dressing room where her friends decorate her with various shining ornaments, fragrances, garlands, and unguents. Then she, after carefully begging permission from her mother-in-law [JaTilA], is called, along with her friends, by YazodA to cook ﬁne food [at KRSNa’s house].

NArada said:
(30) Why does YazodA call the lady [RAdhA] to cook, when there are good ladies, headed by RohiNI, [at KRSNa’s house] who are cooks?

VRndA said:
(31-34) O great sage, previously a boon was given to her by DurvAsas; so have I heard before from the mouth of KAtyAyanI. “Whatever you cook, o lady, shall be, by my grace, as sweet as nectar and shall increase the duration of life of its eater.” Thus, the good lady, YazodA, fond of her son, daily calls her [thinking], “In this way may my son will be long-lived through His desire for tasty foods.” Hearing that she [RAdhA] should go to the house of Nanda and being permitted [to go], she, too, is pleased, and she goes there along with her friends and cooks.
(35-41) KRSNa also, having milked some cows and had others milked by His people, returns at the request of His father to His house surrounded by friends. Having rubbed His body with oil, He is bathed happily by His servants. Wearing clean clothes, garlanded, His body anointed with sandalwood, appearing with His hair parted in two above His neck and forehead, beautiﬁed by the curls and a sandal-wood mark on His forehead shaped like the moon, His arms and hands shining with bracelets, armlets and jeweled rings, with a pearl necklace shining on His chest and makara-shaped earrings, He, being repeatedly called by His mother, takes the hand of a friend and enters the dining room, following Baladeva. He then, along with His brother and friends, enjoys different kinds of foods, making His friends laugh with a variety of jokes and laughing along with them. After eating and rinsing His mouth, He rests for a while on a shining cot, dividing up and chewing the betel nut given Him by His servants.
(42-45) KRSNa, dressed as a cowherder, with the herd before Him, is followed down the path [to the pastures] affectionately by all the residents of Vraja. Bowing to His father and mother and with glances at [the rest of] the gathering, He turns them back as is proper and heads towards the forest. After entering the forest, He plays with His friends for a while. He happily amuses Himself with various games in that forest. Then, tricking all of them, He goes joyfully, accompanied by only two or three dear friends, to the tryst eager to meet His dear one.
(46-52) She [RAdhA], too, after watching KRSNa go to the forest, returns home and out of a desire to be with her dear one, she, on the pretext of worshiping the sun god, fools her elders and goes to the forest in order to gather ﬂowers. Thus, the two with great effort meet in the forest and spend the day there happily in various games. Sometimes They are seated on a swing together and are pushed by their friends. Sometimes Hari, His ﬂute having dropped from His hand and being hidden by His lover, is scolded by His “insulted” girlfriends as He searches for it. They keep Him laughing with many jokes there. Sometimes happily entering a forested stretch that is blown by spring breezes, They sprinkle each other with sandal and ﬂower-scented waters using sprinklers and smear each other with ointments. The girlfriends, too, sprinkle Them and are sprinkled in return by the couple throughout those groves ﬁlled with spring breezes.
(53-60) O twice-born, sometimes the couple along with their friends become tired from the many games suited to those various moments and ﬁnding the base of a tree, o most true of sages, They sit on shining seats and drink honey wine. Then, becoming intoxicated by that honey wine, their eyes drooping with sleep, They take hold of each others’ hands and fall to the arrows of desire. Desiring to make love They enter a bower along the path, their words and minds faltering, and They enjoy themselves there like leaders of elephants. The friends, too, being intoxicated with honey, their eyes laden with sleep, all lie down in pretty bowers all around and KRSNa, too, the powerful, visits all of them simultaneously with separate bodies, being repeatedly urged on by His dearest. After giving them pleasure like a king of elephants does his female elephants, He goes with His dearest and them to a pond in order to play. The couple with their friends enjoy Themselves splashing water on each other. They then are adorned with clothes, garlands, sandal paste, and shining ornaments right there on the shore of that pond in a shining, bejeweled house.
(61-69) I arrange fruit and roots in advance, o sage, and Hari eats ﬁrst, served by His beloved. He then goes, accompanied by two or three ladies, to a bed made of ﬂowers. Being served with betel nut, a yak-tail fan, foot massages and so forth, He, smiling and thinking of His dear one, He is pleased by them. RAdhikA, too, when Hari is asleep, though her breath is with Him, eats His remnants, among her friends, her heart pleased. Then after eating a little, she goes to the bedroom to gaze on the lotus-like face of her lover like a Cakora bird gazing on the moon and the ladies there offer her His chewed betel. She eats the betel dividing it among her friends. KRSNa, covered with a cloth, wanting to hear their uninhibited conversation with each other, though not asleep pretends as if He were and they, [learning the truth] somehow from inference, make faces, bite their tongues with their teeth, and look at each others’ faces. As though dissolved in an ocean of embarrassment, they do not say anything for a while. Then after a moment they pull the cloth from His body and say, “A ﬁne sleep you’ve gone to,” making Him laugh and laughing themselves.
(70-75) Thus, the two, enjoying Themselves with their friends with various humorous remarks, taste the happiness of sleep for a while, o truest of sages. They then sit happily among their friends on a broad, shining seat and, wagering each other’s garlands, kisses, embraces and clothes, play dice with love amidst the banter of merriment. His dear one scolds Him when though beaten, He says, “I have won,” and begins to take her garlands and things. And after being scolded KRSNa with His hand on His lotus-face becomes despondent and makes up His mind to go saying: “If you have defeated me, o lady, let what I wagered, kisses and so forth, be taken.” She does just that. [He behaves like that] to see the furrowing of her brow and to hear her scolding speech.
(76-81) Then, both hearing the words and calls of the parrots and sArIs [= sArikAs], They, desiring to return home, leave that place. KRSNa, taking leave of His lover, heads towards the cows, and she goes to the temple of the sun god along with her circle of friends. Going off a little ways, Hari turns back and putting on the disguise of a brAhmaNa goes to the temple of the sun. There He is invited by the girlfriends and helps them worship the sun with fabricated Vedic hymns pregnant with humor. Then, the clever girls, recognizing Him as their lover become absorbed in an ocean of joy and lose all track of self and other. In this way they spend two and a half periods, sage, and then they [the gopIs] go to their houses and KRSNa goes to the cows.
(82-89) KRSNa joins with all His friends and collecting together the cows from all over returns to the village joyfully playing His ﬂute, o sage. Then Nanda and all the other cowherders, including the women and children, hearing the sound of Hari’s ﬂute and seeing the surface of the sky spread with a veil of cow dust, give up all their activities and go towards KRSNa, anxious to see Him. On the main road, at the gate of the village, where all the residents of the village [wait as] KRSNa, too, approaches them [and greets them] properly in succession: with looks, touches, words, smiling glances, [He greets] the cowherder elders; with verbal and physical obeisance and prostrations, [He greets] His parents and RohiNI, o NArada; and with decorum through the indications of His side-long glances, [He greets] His beloved. Thus, after being suitably greeted by those residents of Vraja and after taking the cows into the cowshed, at the request of His parents, He goes home along with His brother.
(90-93) After bathing and having something to eat and drink there, He, with the permission of His mother, goes again to the cowshed, desiring to milk the cows, and after milking some, having some milked and having some watered, He who pursues hundreds of feelings returns home with His father. There along with His father, His uncles, their sons, and BalarAma, He eats varieties of foods, some chewed, some sucked, and so forth. Thinking of Him, RAdhikA then, even before being asked, sends cooked foods to His house through her friends and Hari praising those dishes enjoys them along with His father and the others. He then goes with them to the assembly hall which is replete with bards and other performers.
(94-99) The girlfriends who previously brought the food return with many of those dishes and some of KRSNa’s leftovers, sent by YazodA. Bringing it with them they offer all to RAdhikA and she then having eaten along with her friends, in proper order, waits surrounded by them ready to meet her lover. I then send some friend from here who guides her to a house made of shining jewels in this bower of desire trees near the YamunA. Dressed in attire suitable for either a light or dark night, she departs surrounded by friends.
(100-105) After watching various wondrous performances there [in the assembly hall], listening to beautiful songs of KAtyAyanI, and then pleasing them [the performers] with money, grains and other things according to custom, KRSNa, honored by the people there, returns home with His mother and friends. When after feeding Him His mother leaves, He comes here unnoticed to the house appointed by His lover. Joining each other those two enjoy here among the forests. For two and a half periods of the night [seven and a half hours] they enjoy various amusements headed by the circle (rAsa) dance, the dance of love, and much laughter. The sleepy lovers enter the bower unnoticed by the birds, and alone fall asleep on an enchanting love-bed made of ﬂowers, being served there by their personal servants. Thus, the entire daily activity of Hari has been told to you. Even sinners are liberated by hearing this, o NArada.

NArada said:
(106) O lady, there can be no doubt that I am fortunate to have been blessed by you, for Hari’s daily lIlA has been revealed to me now.

SUta said:
(107-110) This said, after circumambulating her and being worshipped by her, NArada, the best of sages, disappeared, o brAhmaNa. I, too, have made all this known in proper order. One should forever utter with care the unsurpassed pair of mantras. This was attained previously by Rudra from the lips of KRSNa. By Him it was told to NArada and NArada told me. Now after performing puriﬁcation I have told this to you. You, too, should keep this most amazing secret conﬁdential.

Zaunaka said:
(111) I have achieved my goal by your direct grace, o guru, since you have revealed the secret of secrets to me.

SUta said:
(112-116) Devoting yourself to these truths and reciting the mantras day and night, no doubt you will attain to service of Him without delay. I, too, o brAhmaNa, go to the eternal abode of the Supreme in the company of the guru of gurus, the daughter of BhAnu [RAdhA], and of the Lord of the cowherder girls. This most purifying account, great in might, was told by Maheza. Those devoted human beings who hear it will go to the eternal realm of Acyuta. It bestows fortune, fame, long life, health, desired objectives, success, causes the attainment of heaven and liberation and destroys sin. Those human beings, intent on ViSNu, who read it regularly with devotion will not in any way return again from ViSNu’s realm.

So ends the VrndAvana mahAtmya, the eighty-third chapter in the PatAla KhaNDa, the ﬁfth section of the Padma MahA PurANa.

padma_purana_5patala.pdf by Maharishi University of Management, Vedic Literature Collection: p. 394-402