In plain words
This is an ideal for the world. Bharata too was just the same. Saying, “Until Śrī Rāmacandra comes back to Ayodhyā I will not set foot in Ayodhyā,” he sat in Nandigrāma doing tapas, with matted hair like Śrī Rāmacandra, wearing clothes of bark.
So, in this Rāmāyaṇa: what is the bond between mother and child like? What is the bond between husband and wife like? What is the bond between brothers like? What is the bond between people and rulers like? The Rāmāyaṇa has shown all this well. It has also shown well the close bond that should hold between master and servant. When Rāvaṇa was carrying Sītā off, Jaṭāyu, trying to save Sītā, fought Rāvaṇa in many ways and at last gave up his life. Saying, “I must grant a good end to this Jaṭāyu, who gave his life for My sake,” He laid him on His lap, consoled him in many ways and granted his life the fulfilment it deserved. Those who trusted Rāma, who carried out Rāma's word, who were worthy of Rāma's Prema, He never once kept far from Himself.
Before they reached the city of Laṅkā, Vibhīṣaṇa came: “Rāma! I come to You for refuge,” and he fell at His feet. Lakṣmaṇa spoke: “Brother, You must not be hasty in accepting him as one who has come for refuge,” he said. “This is the rākṣasa race. Rāvaṇa's brother is coming to join You for some selfish end. These owls long only for darkness and never wish for light. These rākṣasas sink only in selfishness and never look to the good of others. So he falls at Your feet only from some narrow motive. Do not give him Your word of safety at once,” he said. Then Rāma said: “My dear! What is it to Me who he is? Falling at My feet: ‘Svāmi! I come to You for refuge,’ when he says this, whoever it may be, I will protect him,” He said. If he says even once, “I am Yours,” whoever he may be, I will rule over him. “Whoever falls at My feet even once and says, ‘Svāmi, I am Yours,’ whoever he may be, he is Mine. I am his. I will surely give him My word of safety,” He said. “If one says just once, just one word, ‘I am Yours,’ even one who does Me harm, I will give him My word of safety,” He said.
Rāma had one word, one wife, one arrow. That is why, within the principle of the Rāmāyaṇa, people keep this birth of Rāma once a year. When the sun is on the line of Aries and the moon on the line of Cancer, it stands in the star Punarvasu; that is the auspicious moment. The birth of Rāma. That is Caitra Śuddha Navamī. We may keep Rāma's birth once a year. But foolish people, ignorant men, celebrate Rāma's wedding once a year. Rāma had a wedding only once. You must not hold His wedding every year. They call Him one vowed to a single wife, and then a wedding once a year! And go to Tirupati, and there are weddings every single day. All these are things done for want of sense. We are bringing blemishes upon Rāma's greatness. The coronation, too, happens once; does a coronation happen every day?