In plain words
In this way the Rāmāyaṇa taught every family its ideal. Lakṣmaṇa, Bharata, Śatrughna: all of them dedicated their lives to the Rāma ayana, to the path of Rāma alone. They lived without crossing their elder brother's command. Today every family needs the ideals of the Rāmāyaṇa very much. Sītā gave up all comforts and followed her husband. She did not desire riches and luxuries in the least; she dedicated her life to Rāma.
The Rāmāyaṇa, the Bhāgavata and the Bhārata are histories that rest on kāma, krodha and lobha as their very root. In the Rāmāyaṇa, Rāvaṇa means kāma itself. The whole Rāmāyaṇa took place because of Rāvaṇa, who was given to kāma. Rāma incarnated precisely to destroy kāma. In the Bhāgavata, Hiraṇyakaśipu is krodha. He hated Hari. "Where is Hari? He is nowhere," he used to say. To remove this very krodha Hari incarnated as Narasiṃha and slew Hiraṇyakaśipu. In this way He put an end to krodha. In the Bhārata, Duryōdhana is the very sample of lobha. Rāvaṇa, Hiraṇyakaśipu and Duryōdhana mean nothing but kāma, krodha and lobha. The three histories appeared in the world precisely to put an end to these three. In all three the effort was precisely to teach Dharma.
Duryōdhana, the greedy one, came to bow to his mother Gāndhārī. Not giving way to the attachment that he was her son, she blessed him: "Where Dharma is, there is victory." She said that where Dharma is, there victory is, but she did not say victory to you. Duryōdhana went to bow to Drōṇācārya, his guru. "Where Dharma is, there is Kṛṣṇa; where Kṛṣṇa is, there is victory," said Drōṇācārya. Where Dharma is, there Kṛṣṇa will be. Where Kṛṣṇa is, there victory comes, he said in blessing.
Where Kṛṣṇa, the lord of yoga, is, where Pārtha the archer is, there are fortune, victory, prosperity and sure justice: this is my conviction.
Where Dharma is, there alone victory is, says the Gītā.
Before going to the forest Rāma bowed to His mother, Kausalyā Dēvī. "My son! Your own dharma will protect you even in the forest," the mother blessed Him. Lakṣmaṇa came and bowed to his mother, Sumitrā. Her very name is Sumitrā. Friendship is her natural quality. Giving no room to the pride and attachment of his being her son: "Ayōdhyā without Rāma is a forest; the forest where Rāma is, is Ayōdhyā itself. Go, my son! The forest that is Ayōdhyā without Rāma is our lot. Take Rāma's presence as Ayōdhyā and make your life blessed, my son!" So that mother taught her son. Because there were such mothers, fathers and teachers, the quarters rang in those days with the Vedic words "Let your mother be God to you, let your father be God to you, let the guest be God to you, let the teacher be God to you."