In plain words
It is enough even to think of the Divine for a single moment.
Today there is no sacrifice in us. A well in a dark house is better than a hand that does not give. An ox that ploughs the field is better than an educated blockhead. When you offer your life in a spirit of sacrifice, true yoga is attained. It is the Rāmāyaṇa that teaches such sacrifice to mankind. Honouring His father's command, Rāma renounced every attachment, wore bark garments and entered the forest. Rāma is the one who showed what it means to carry out the command of God. The Ātma is the great law. If you transgress the Ātma, Ānanda goes far away.
Rāma went off, ordering Lakṣmaṇa to guard Sītā, left alone in the leaf hut, and not to leave Sītā and go in any situation whatever. He warned him not to leave Sītā and come away, however many hardships, sorrows, reproaches and taunts might come. But Lakṣmaṇa is of the nature of a jīva. So some weakness arose in him. "Hā Sītā! Hā Lakṣmaṇa!" Hearing this cry of distress and taking it truly for Rāma's voice, Sītā pressed Lakṣmaṇa to go to Rāma at once. Come what may, Lakṣmaṇa meant to keep Rāma's command strictly. But Sītā's piercing words stabbed at his heart and began to torment him. Unable to bear Sītā's harsh words, he disobeyed Rāma's command, left Sītā and moved away from there. Afterwards, when he learned that Rāvaṇa had carried Sītā off, he grieved deeply. "Was it not because I disobeyed God's command that all these hardships came upon Sītā?" he lamented to the end of his life. Of the times in his life when he disobeyed Rāma's command, this was the first.
Before Rāma went with Sītā to His own abode, Kāla-Yama came. Talking with him, Rāma: "Lakṣmaṇa, do not let anyone in. If you let even one person inside, it is beheading, take care!" So He commanded. Lakṣmaṇa had firm faith in Rāma. Just at that time Durvāsa came and said that he would go in and speak with Rāma. Lakṣmaṇa told him plainly that he could not go in. Durvāsa flew into a rage and thundered, "I will utterly destroy your Ayōdhyā and your race, take care!" Lakṣmaṇa fell into a dilemma of dharma. If he let him in, he himself would be beheaded. If he did not, Ayōdhyā too would be destroyed, along with the Raghu dynasty. He thought it over and came to a firm decision. "For disobeying Rāma's command my head will go. Even so, it does not matter. The people of Ayōdhyā must be safe. What good fortune it is to die at Rāma's hands. If I disobey Durvāsa's command, the whole race will be destroyed," he thought, and he let Durvāsa in. The Rāmāyaṇa is full of such ideal episodes. But today people interpret the Rāmāyaṇa, each applying it to suit their own qualities
How should brothers be? How should the love of mother and father be? How should the ideal of husband and wife be?