In plain words
We reap failure. For this, the Rāmāyaṇa itself is the right proof for us. A man of great power and capacity, a man who had performed many yajñas, yāgas and other rites, a man who had passed in every branch of learning, Rāvaṇa, mighty in power and capacity, defied Rāma and wanted only Sītā herself, and because of that he could not keep Sītā at all, could not hold her; in the end he burned his kingdom and his own people to ashes, and burned his own being to ashes as well. Sītā is earth-born; Rāma is the great Puruṣa. Rāma is the one who wedded the earth-born. So when we set about enjoying the earth-born without Rāma's leave, no success of any kind comes to us. What kind of woman was Sītā? When Rāmacandra was being sent to the forest, Rāma came and told Sītā, ‘Stay in Ayodhyā itself, serving the parents; I will live out fourteen years in the forest and come back,’ and then Sītā gave up all her comforts, all her pleasures, everything, and set out with Rāma. You know this truth well: it was by giving up the world that Rāma became hers. The reason is this: Sītā taught that for a wife her husband is her very God; that such Bhakti to the husband is itself the true vow for a wife; that this very vow is what the Bhāratīyas hold right; and that what they hold right is itself the good of the Bhāratīyas. Sītā taught that this very morality shone like a lamp for our land of Bhārata. Only because she put every desire of hers far away did Rāma become hers. Yet the strangeness of Māyā, the distortions of Māyā, the power and capacity of Māyā — at one time or another, no one, whoever he may be, can escape them. Sītā had given up everything of great value and was living in the forest; one day a golden deer came into her sight, and the very moment she saw it she wanted that golden deer; Rāma went after the deer; and in the end Sītā was caught in Rāvaṇa's hands, left the forest and reached Laṅkā. Its inner meaning is this: when she put desire far away, Rāma was hers. But when she ran after desire again, Rāma went far from her. So when we want Rāma to be ours, we must give up desire.