Passage 1

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In plain words

Embodiments of Prema!

No person of Bhārata who has not heard the story of Śrī Rāma, and no village without a temple of Rāma, is to be found. From time without beginning in Bhārata, every individual has believed the principle of Rāma to be the principle of an ideal life and has gone on making his life holy moment by moment. Bhārata has long held a person of Bhārata with no spiritual bent of mind to be nothing but a useless creature.

It is the change of the two months called Madhu and Mādhava that is the season of spring. The season of spring means the sun's entering the signs Meṣa and Vṛṣabha. These very signs are also called the sign of Venus. In this sign of Venus, it teaches simply a life that is white, joined with the colour blue. This principle of God, joined with the colour blue, has been teaching as the root sign that points to the vastness of the world, to health and to joy. When Venus entered Pisces, the birth of Śrī Rāmacandra came about. The principle of Rāma came forth to bring peace and security to the world and to bring forth the divine principle that is in humanness.

In this principle of Rāma, this season of spring is of great importance. The ripened leaves fall, and tender shoots, shoots that glow with great brightness, shoots that bring joy to the world, grow on these trees. When the orb of the sun falls on these leaves, this becomes simply a golden world. More than that, this season of spring shows the world itself as a thing of beauty.

‘Rāmo vigrahavān dharmaḥ’: Dharma itself took on the form of Rāma and came forth in this world. Dharma is not one thing and Rāma another. Rāma and Dharma are bound together inseparably. Each rests on the other. The story of Rāma is in two parts. One is the first part. The second is the later part. In the first part, Śrī Rāma is the hero who conquered heroes and brave men such as the mighty Vāli, the powerful Rāvaṇa and the great warrior Paraśurāma. This great hero won not only strength of arm but, along with strength of Buddhi, strength of virtue too. It is not possible to describe Rāma's wealth of virtues in this way.

The form of God has six kinds of powers. One is complete sovereignty; the second, Dharma.