In plain words
Daśaratha, out of attachment, pride and infatuation, was ready to break his word; but Rāma, his son, took a vow: to nourish Satya, to uphold Satya and to show Satya to the world were the Dharma of the Raghu dynasty; he would protect them, and to keep them safe he would sacrifice everything.
Everyone must follow time, but time follows no one
‘Kālakāla prapannānāṃ kālaḥ kiṃ na kariṣyati’: to conquer time and to master time is man's chief duty. Yet time is no one's kin. Time yields to no one. Time waits for no one. Time makes no distinction whatever of race, religion or caste. Time makes no pledge of any kind. Everyone must follow time, but time follows no one. So man, who has taken on a body in order to make time sacred, must hold karma itself to be his duty and offer up the body. It is by time, karma, cause and duty that humanness is bound together. There is a bond between such humanness and divinity. Between one man and another, the mind itself is the screen. So when we set the mind on the right path, good relations can grow between people. With this very thing in view, they said, ‘Manayeva manuṣyāṇāṃ kāraṇaṃ bandhamokṣayoḥ.’ All the Dharmas have dissolved into the womb of time. The Hindu tradition of ‘Samasta lokāḥ sukhino bhavantu’ is travelling a narrow road today. Its breadth has been broken. Humanness has fallen out of sight. Divinity has fallen away to the winds. None of the sūtras of Dharma is understood at all any more. In the world, ninety-nine out of a hundred want only kāma, the third of the puruṣārthas. Because these desires have grown so great, people forget Dharma and artha. As for Mokṣa, there is no need even to speak of it.