॥॥
In plain words
If we are to nourish good resolves, we must give up bad company
The Bhāgavatam has taught the truth that it can never be the duty of a devotee to think of God for a few moments only and spend the rest of his time in a useless worldly life. For this, good company is most necessary. It is in good company that such resolves can be gained. If we are to nourish good resolves, we must give up bad company. Through bad company a man turns wicked. Wicked thoughts enter the head. He falls into wicked conduct. He longs only for wicked thoughts. He falls into speaking ill of others. He is sunk in attachment and hatred. The tamoguṇa dances on his head. How can the influence of good company reach the head of a man whose nature is that of bad company? However good a man, however devoted to Dharma, when bad company comes to him he loses his Dharma, his path of Satya, everything.
The mark of Bhakti is to develop a mind that does not waver and a vision that is not deluded
The eldest of the Pāṇḍavas was the embodiment of Dharma. His acts and his words were all joined with Dharma. Because he kept company with the four wicked ones, Duryodhana, Duśśāsana, Karṇa and Śakuni, even Dharmaja lost everything and in the end had to live in the forest. Through this bad company even Dharmaja, pure of heart, had to lose all he had.
Kaikeyī was the embodiment of Prema. Rāma was as dear to her as her life. It was only because such a Kaikeyī joined the wicked Mantharā that she sent her son away. Others were able to revile her. She went into the dark chamber. She opened her heart and prayed.
Why should a woman live, parted from husband and son? The fruit of what sin has brought this torment upon me? (Why should…)
So even Kaikeyī, the chief queen, lost her good name through the influence of bad company, lost her good qualities too, and fell under the blame of the world.