In plain words
When we become worthy of the grace of Rāma, who stands in the middle, the principles of Kāma and Kāla do not set out to torment us. Like a fire under its ash, like water under moss, like an eye under a film, kāma keeps this Jñāna covered. Now, where did this curtain called kāma come from? What is its nature? Finding out its whole origin and history is most urgent. Because of this kāma, the weighing of the eternal against the transient comes to a standstill. It forgets the sense of discrimination. It makes moha grow. Through moha, memory fails. As memory fails, the Buddhi wastes away. As the Buddhi wastes away, humanness itself is destroyed. So this kāma brings ruin upon our life. First of all we must understand what the principle of kāma is, where kāma is born and what the nature of kāma is, or inquire into it, and go in search of its beginning. The moment we come to know it, in an instant it moves very far away from us. Because we, not knowing it, give the chief place to it alone and think of it as something great, it climbs onto our head and dances its wild dance there. For this, a little story. In a village a wedding was taking place. The day before the wedding, the bridegroom's party arrived from another village. The bride's family were staying in one house. Between these two, one man kept throwing his weight about a great deal, with the bridegroom's party on that side and with the bride's people on this side. To the bridegroom's people: ‘You do not come to your meals on time; we are kept waiting. However many times we call you, you do not come,’ he would say to them, laying down the law. The bridegroom's people were thinking; they took him to be the elder of the bride's house. Then he would come to the bride's house: ‘You are not giving us proper recognition. You are not offering us due respect. You are careless of us’ — and so he picked quarrels with the bride's people. Because he played out a drama in this way, the bride's people took him for the elder on the bridegroom's side, and so it went on.