In plain words
Discipline, learning and mastery of the senses spur man, who is living in animality, to live as man; through them this becomes possible. If we cannot hold firmly the horses that roam at will, danger comes to the chariot, to the one who rides in it and to the charioteer. If man holds the Manas, the rein, with the greatest care, draws it in and so guides the horses, man can become Mādhava. Through good company, good feeling and good thought, we can come close to the state of Mādhava. Such sādhanas are vital for every human being.
Man must foster certain kinds of feeling. The story of Rāma will be a fine guide for you. In His boyhood Rāma met with three kinds of women. First of all, Rāma took the principal karmakāṇḍa into His own hands. He guarded from the wicked the yāga that Viśvāmitra had resolved upon for the good of the world, and wore the kaṅkaṇa for the re-establishment of Dharma. He slew Tāṭakā, the mother of demons who were offenders against the rites, she who was the very form of tamoguṇa.