In plain words
In the Tretā age even the rākṣasas recognised divinity well. Mārīca… is known to … all. Tāṭakā's son. Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa, the two of them, … to guard Viśvāmitra's yāga. Just as the yajña was beginning, Tāṭakā came in. With a single arrow … struck Tāṭakā down. Unable to bear the grief of his mother's death, Mārīca came. Since He was one who recogni… Mārīca's heart, Śrī Rāmacandra did not strike him dead. Through him there were tasks still to happen… in time to come. God is the One who knows the heart. God is the One who recogni… past, future and present. He trusted that Mārīca would be a guide for His purposes. With a single … loosed, Mārīca went flying some miles away and fell, still alive. Then Mārīca fully recognised …'s power, Rāma's purity and Rāma's divinity. At … time Rāvaṇa summoned Mārīca. ‘In the plan I am laying to carry off Sītā, … must be the one who directs it,’ he said. ‘In the work of drawing Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa away from the hermitage, you must … a part,’ he said. Mārīca joined his palms: ‘King of the rākṣasas! Śrī Rāmacandra is God Himself. Beside …'s power and might, your power and might are no more than an atom. Do not set your hand to this sinful deed,’ said Mārīca. ‘Vināśakāle viparīta buddhiḥ’: when the time of ruin comes, perverse notions are bor…. Good becomes bad. Bad becomes good. Then Rāvaṇa spoke. ‘Mārīca! For maripōvaṭaṃ the ā… of me, the lord, I will cut off the head,’ he said. Then Mārīca, the rākṣasa, thought! Shame! Rather than die at the hand of this …, what good fortune it is to die at Rāmacandra's hand. I do not want a … of this kind: so Mārīca then took the form of a deer and came to the hermitage. In those days, even among the rākṣasas, such feelings kept arising: even rākṣasas must die at God's hand, must be in God's presence, life must be dedicat… to God's work.
But under the sway of this Kali age, mānavṛtai too, though they hav… Vijñāna, Prajñāna and Sujñāna …, divine feelings do not enter the mind. Divine feelings must … be in our heart. Base feelings are covering it over. This is nothing but the power of worldly desire. These are … attractive. Just so, the hearts of devotees fall prey to attraction… of that kind. They recognise sinful action as wrong. They think meritorious action very holy. … they do not step forward to meritorious deeds. Even knowing that sinful deeds are bad, they keep stepping forward… ‘Puṇyasya phalamiścanti puṇyaṃ neścanti mānavāḥ, na pāpa phalamiścanti pāpaṃ kurvanti yatnataḥ!’