In plain words
So we must blame no one. We must hurt no one. We must wish no one ill. We must go on wishing all men good. Only then will fine, sacred thoughts grow in your heart.
So we must recognise the mind as a gathering of thoughts. The mind is the man. The man is the mind. The mind is thoughts. Thoughts are our conduct in our daily life. So our conduct is the outcome of our thoughts. So our conduct must be good. Only when conduct is good will the world be good. So, to nourish our personality, we must shape our conduct to be most sacred. That is what was called character. Character does not mean merely having some sort of good qualities. Our behaviour, our habits, our discipline, all these must be right, along with our conduct. We must bring purity to our conduct, our words, our looks, our hearing and our heart, to all of them. That is why they said, ‘manasyekaṃ vacasyekaṃ karmaṇyekaṃ mahātmanaṃ’. That is the true mark of character. ‘Manas anyat, karmaṇ anyat, vacas anyat durātmanaṃ,’ they said. That is the root cause of our bad ways. So we must make our sight a sacred sight. At no time must we try to listen to bad things. Never must we let bad words in. In this way we must make ours a pure citta.
There are some fine episodes in the Rāmāyaṇa. The young people of today must follow it well. The Rāmāyaṇa has described Lakṣmaṇa's character in many ways. Though he lived in the forest for fourteen years, with no one else, he never once saw Sītā's face even for a moment. When he saw the ornaments that had come into Hanumān's hands, Lakṣmaṇa says: ‘Brother, I do not know these armlets, these ear ornaments. I never saw them. Whether they are Sītā's or not, I do not know. But the anklets alone I know,’ he said. ‘Every day, at the time of falling at her feet, I saw the anklets; otherwise I would not have seen even those.’ Besides this, once, to show the world Lakṣmaṇa's purity as an ideal, Rāma undertook some tests as well.