In plain words
Seen for its inner meaning, the whole of life is the Rāmāyaṇa!
When we look at the Rāmāyaṇa from a distance and understand it in a physical sense, it takes shape for us as a sacred history. But seen with the inner meaning, your whole life is the Rāmāyaṇa! First of all, Daśaratha: the five organs of action and the five organs of knowledge together make ten senses, and the body is the chariot of these ten. This body, with a certain longing, wedded Kausalyā, Sumitrā and Kaikeyī, emblems of the three guṇas, sattva, rajas and tamas. These were Daśaratha's three wives. To these three wives, Dharma, artha, kāma and Mokṣa, the four, were born as Rāma, Lakṣmaṇa, Bharata and Śatrughna. Rāma stands for the Ṛgveda, Lakṣmaṇa for the Yajurveda, Bharata for the Sāmaveda and Śatrughna for the Atharvaṇaveda: the four are the forms of the four Vedas. They were born to perform yajñas, yāgas and other rites for the protection of the world.
In ancient times people worshipped with thought, word and deed as one
King Kauśika gave up all he had, practised tapas and became the great sage Viśvāmitra. He is the one who proclaimed the Gāyatrī mantra. They said, ‘Gāyantāḥ trāyate iti gāyatrī.’ The Gāyatrī has three names. Gāyatrī, Sāvitrī and Sarasvatī. Gāyatrī is the deity of prāṇa. Sāvitrī is the mother of prāṇa. Sarasvatī is the embodiment of the goddess of speech. So the Gāyatrī is the ruler of the jīva, of prāṇa and of speech. ‘Gāyatrīṃ chandasāṃ mātā’: the Gāyatrī is the mother of all the Vedas. Among the Gāyatrī's names there is one, Pañcamukhī, which means that she has five faces. The first is ‘Oṃ’, the second ‘Bhūr bhuvas suvaḥ’, the third ‘Tat savitur vareṇyaṃ’, the fourth ‘Bhargo devasya dhīmahi’, the fifth ‘Dhiyo yo naḥ pracodayāt’. The Gāyatrī has also been described as Navavarṇiṇī. ‘Oṃ, bhūr, bhuvaḥ, suvaḥ, tat, savit, vareṇyaṃ, bhargo, devasya’: these are the Navavarṇiṇī. ‘Dhīmahi’ is meditation. By meditating on these nine syllables, the nine planets came under control. The last is the prayer, ‘Dhiyo yo naḥ pracodayāt’, which is praying, ‘Make my Buddhi grow.’