Passage 5

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In plain words

What is needed is a divine feeling and a fresh way of living. The prosperity of the country did not drop down from the sky. It did not spring up out of the earth. Only from the conduct of men does the prosperity of the country grow. So today man must shape his conduct and make it sacred.

A life of morality, of Dharma and of sacrifice is what matters most for man

Embodiments of Prema! We must enquire well into how great the worth of humanness is. Today we are forgetting motherhood. We are neglecting the duty of a son. We long for divine Ānanda. How can we come by it? Not doing our duty, ignoring humanness, setting ourselves against divinity, longing only for a worldly, physical life, and then wanting happiness and Śānti: how are we to come by them? Rāma left Ayodhyā, went into the forest with Viśvāmitra and guarded the sacrifice; after that, at Viśvāmitra's bidding, He reached the city of Mithilā. There He broke Śiva's bow. King Janaka wished to give his daughter Sītā to Rāma in marriage. But Rāma did not agree. ‘Without the consent of My mother and father, without receiving the command of My mother and father, I will not agree to this marriage at all,’ He said. Viśvāmitra reasoned with Rāma in every way he could. In the end, going even beyond His guru's command, He said that His parents' permission was absolutely necessary. Until His parents came, until His parents made their wish known, He did not so much as raise His eyes to look at Sītā. Today in Bhārata we have forgotten the way of Śrī Rāmacandra, who had such devotion to His mother and His father. To keep His father's word He took up the hard life of the forest and lived fourteen years in hardship. He held steadfastness in Satya to be the true tapas. Vasiṣṭha too went to this forest along with Bharata and tried in many ways to persuade Rāmacandra.