In plain words
Birth, too: there is no birth once every year. But they take it as a symbol. This is the birth. That is, we must hold to the feeling that this is the birthday of Ātmārāma within the empire of my Ātma.
Not Rāma the son of Daśaratha. My Ātmārāma. Rāma is ever delighting me. Ramayatīti Rāmaḥ. The Rāma principle is that which delights the mind. So the Rāma principle is that which arose in the body that is Daśaratha. That is the principle of the Ātma. We must trust such an Ātmārāma, make the journey with Ānanda and bring it to its end. We must never bring it to an end with Ahaṅkāra. So they said: a pit for one whose Ahaṅkāra has grown. They said: ease for one who has recognised the principle of Soham. We must enter from the feeling of ‘aham’ into the feeling of ‘Soham’. Every human being is born saying, “Koham, koham.” Koham: he is saying, “Who am I, who am I?” If a man born in this way dies again saying, “Who am I?”, what is the use of having eaten, lived, studied and grown so big for so long? If one joins college and stays in the same class however many years go by, what a dunce he is! Why should such a fool go to college and study? In the same way, if one who comes into this world saying “Koham” lives so many years and at last dies saying “Koham, koham”, is not his life wasted? So, born with Koham, one must end with Soham. Koham is the question: who am I? Soham: this is the answer. One must answer, “I am the principle of the Ātma,” and close one's eyes. This is the chief secret of human birth. One is the beginning. The second is the end.
From its beginning, Rāma brought His journey to its end only in Ānanda, only within Satya and Dharma. However many troubles, losses, censures, reproaches and pains came, He never once gave up His keeping of Satya. In the ordeal of fire, it seems, Sītā is looking at Rāma alone. To Sītā, Rāma alone is visible. But to Rāma, it seems, the world too is visible. What is the reason here? If I too look only at Sītā… the protection of the world comes first, does it not? With the thought “What will the world think?”, He fixed His sight on the world and decided, “The world matters more to Me than Sītā.” “If we bring back Sītā, who was ten months in Laṅkā, without testing her, we will fall into slander. How contrary to the ideal we will be!”: with this in view He Himself tested her and took from Agni Deva too the word that she is purity itself. Then and there Agni too said, “Rāmo vigrahavān dharmaḥ.” “You are Dharma itself in form, Rāma!” he said. For the world lives by Your Dharma itself. There too Rāma showed, “My life is my Message.” The Rāma principle is a message for every human being. Installing such a Rāma principle on the throne of the heart and making the fitting effort to change humanness into divinity: that alone is the true gratitude for Rāma's birth.