In plain words
The guru saw this: “My children! I gave that boy the very mantra I gave you. In me there is no partiality, no distinction at all. Mine is a large, selfless heart,” he said, and looking at that disciple: “My son! Tell all these what name I gave you,” he asked. That disciple told all the other disciples the name the guru had given him. They all heard it. The name given to all of them was the same. But since they did not trust in the power of that name, nor rightly recognise it, they could not make use of it. But this disciple regarded the Gurudeva who taught him that name as his “exemplar”, and with the faith, “My guru alone is my exemplar,” he conducted himself as an ideal student. That faith alone saved him; there is no difference at all in the name.
Make distinctions among names, and however much sādhana you do, it is all in vain! Faith is essential. However many times you repeat a name without faith, there is no benefit. So trust is the chief thing.
Every person must become an ideal
However much learning people acquire, unfortunately God is the one thing they will not set themselves to trust. Today's intelligence, all its knowledge and discernment, goes into trusting what is petty. People do not trust what is greater, nobler, ideal and leads to growth. That is why man today has to go through so many troubles. So we must have trust. Only because people placed their trust in Śrī Rāma's ideal does everyone, after so many thousands of years, still honour the word “Rāma” today. However many ages change, ideals do not crumble. We must shape ourselves into an ideal life. Every person must become an ideal. No one should be merely a man of show. We must give up this show and develop faith in the Ātma. On the day we contemplate divinity, on that very day the “age of Rāma” can come to us. Everyone will become nothing less than the form of Rāma. When we say Rāma, it is not Rāma the son of Daśaratha. The Ātma itself is Rāma. That is why they say “Ātmārāma”. He who makes us delight, He alone is Rāma. He who draws us, He alone is Rāma. So, if you ask what the birth of Rāma means: on the day we grow sacred, ideal feelings within us, on that very day there can be the contemplation of Rāma, the birth of Rāma. So attain God through Prema. To attain God, there is no chief sādhana in this world other than Prema.