। ॥
In plain words
O Kāmākṣī, your foot always guards the jewel of the mind that its own people have deposited with it, for fear of the thief that is great delusion. Why then does this same foot, from an excess of rāga, which is redness and also attachment, boldly steal the glow of the young leaf?
Word for word
From fear of the contact of the great-delusion thief guards which, deposited in itself, the mind-jewel of its own people, always, that, from excess of rāga always also, O Kāmākṣī, quickly, why thus the foot this the glow of the sprout steals your?