Passage 2

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In plain words

The third, fame; the fourth, wealth. The fifth, Jñāna; the sixth, Vairāgya. God is the one endowed with the six excellences, possessed of these six qualities. Śrī Rāmacandramūrti is the one who, following these six qualities one after another, took on a form of equipoise. In whatever age, in whatever world, it is by taking on the forms of these six excellences that God keeps coming down as these Avatāras.

Human birth is very holy. It is distinguished. It is precious. It is worth living. Not only in the make of his body but in the power of his intellect too, man is greatly distinguished. But for such a distinguished humanness, the span of life is very short. This is something no one may forget. Within the span of this life itself, the divine intellect given to this humanness must be put to good use and must win its true fulfilment. The human body is like a bubble of water. No one knows in what minute this bubble of water will break apart. It is while this life lasts that every individual must strive to make his humanness fulfilled.

Every individual who has taken a human body must practise Satya. He must keep it; he must follow it. That is the main thing in these human values. What, after all, is humanness? It is mind, word and deed all joined as one. If the mind is one thing, the word another and the deed another, what use is it? The thoughts one thinks must be spoken in words, and the words spoken must be carried out in deeds. This is what is meant by manasyekaṃ vacasyekaṃ karmaṇyekaṃ mahātmanaṃ. Rāma is just such a great soul. Manasyanyat vacasyanyat karmaṇyanyat durātmanaṃ. Rāvaṇa is just such a wicked soul. Man must think in his mind of the good deeds he ought to do, speak them in words and carry them out in deeds. We must nourish such humanness.

What is chief in the Rāmāyaṇa is Satya and Dharma. The Vedas, dear as life to the people of Bhārata, have been giving the teachings: Speak Satya; practise Dharma. To uphold Satya, in the effort to keep it, Śrī Rāma left Ayodhyā and went to the forest. It is Satya that is the base of all dharmas. There is no Dharma higher than Satya. So that His father, in the line of Ikṣvāku, would not fall into the disgrace of having broken his word, Śrī Rāmacandra stood firm for the sake of the country, for the sake of the line, for the sake of society, as one who keeps the word of truth.

In Śrī Rāmacandra's life, at the very first, within His twelve years, three kinds of womanhood crossed His path.