In plain words
Embodiments of the divine Ātma!
For twelve days now we have been listening to the Bhaja Govindam hymns of Śaṅkarācārya, the Bhagavatpāda, and, partaking of the sacred nectar in them, we have set about the effort to turn our life to the divine path and through that to make our birth worthwhile. In the world, because we let desires and impurity gather on the citta, which is like a mirror, we fall into hardship, in a state where our purity is not understood even by ourselves. But each and every Bhaja Govindam śloka too stands by us as a help, like a light on the divine path, as though handing a sacred light to this citta. Among all the things in the world, we may well say that no one else has power such as Kāma has. Kāma is a mighty warrior. Not one place in the world can be found that Kāma, such a warrior, cannot reach. He is a warrior who roams at will everywhere, all over. Yet there is one realm only that he is not fit to enter: the realm of the Ātma. In all the other places he is one who roams at will. But this Kāma has a friend, and that friend is none other than Krodha. These two always keep together. These, kāma and krodha, keep going about with us as a pair. Kāma is the great devourer, Krodha the great sinner. There is no doubt at all in saying that a person whom both of these have joined is a corpse in form. In the world, people have been calling these very corpses ‘powers of pleasure’ as well, the world over. These corpses, the powers of pleasure, get no entry at all into the realm of the Ātma. Only the kings of renunciation, who are the power of Śiva, have the right to enter this realm of the Ātma; the kings of pleasure, who are the power of a corpse, get no entry into it. Precisely with this in view, one of Śaṅkara's disciples said, ‘Even a yogi who cannot curb the rāgas will fall.’