In plain words
Ūrmilā's sacrifice
Lakṣmaṇa's wife was Ūrmilā. She was a woman of great virtue. The moment Lakṣmaṇa let her know he was going to the forests with Rāma to do “service to Rāma”, his wife Ūrmilā humbly bowed her head and saluted him: “Alas! Such good fortune has not come to me. So you at least must go, and come back,” she told him graciously. Though afterwards she too longed to go, she spoke to Lakṣmaṇa again, in this way: “If I come with you, I will be the one who stands in your way as you serve Sītā and Rāma. So, that you may serve Sītā and Rāma with nothing in your way, I will not come with you; I will stay in Ayodhyā,” and she gave her consent with all her heart. Ūrmilā is one who made a greater sacrifice than Sītā.
A mother's blessing
As he was setting out with his elder brother Śrī Rāma to live in the forest, Lakṣmaṇa bowed at the feet of his mother Sumitrā: “Mother! Bless me,” he asked. Then Sumitrā blessed him in this way: “My son! This Ayodhyā without Śrī Rāmacandra is a forest to me. That forest with Śrī Rāmacandra in it is Ayodhyā to you. Serve Him joyfully. I bid you farewell with great joy,” she said. Could any mother send off a son that way? No mother could. Śrī Rāmacandra's family was just such a family, with hearts this sacred.
Śrī Rāmacandra came to His mother Kausalyā and bowed to her. Though she knew her son was God, a mother's love for her son, an affection born of the body, welled up in her, and she blessed Him in this way: “My son! May the ‘Vīrarakṣā’ that Gaurī gave Vighneśvara when he set out to crush the might and the strength of arm of Tārakāsura, the ‘Vimalarakṣā’ that his mother Vinatā gave Garutmān when he set out to free his mother from bondage, and all such protections become your body's guard, your mind's guard, your fortune's guard, and keep you safe as the protection of Śrī Rāma,” and so, blessing Him with many blessed, divine protections, she sent Śrī Rāma on His way. In this way Śrī Rāmacandra's mother, stepmothers, brothers and their wives bade Him farewell with many kinds of joy.
What we must chiefly notice in the story of Rāma is the unity of those families. When a family lives in unity, the village lives in unity. Only when the villages are happy does the nation shine with Dharma. “For the honour of the line, give up even a son; for the good of the village, sacrifice even a family; for the good of the nation, sacrifice even a village”: this is the very counsel Vidura gave. In those days, Rāma's rule went on with such morality and honesty.
God is free of self-interest
God may punish, may protect, may give joy. He slew Dantavaktra, Śiśupāla and the rest; He kept protecting the Pāṇḍavas. He kept protecting Prahlāda; He slew Hiraṇyākṣa and Hiraṇyakaśipu. He punished Rāvaṇa and Kumbhakarṇa; He crowned Vibhīṣaṇa. He made the gopikās weep; He gave joy to the cowherd boys. In people today there are doubts at every step, nothing but suspicions.