Passage 6

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In plain words

To this, Rāma: “Guruji! Human life is not greater than morality. Bowing to My father's command, I entered this forest. If I now break My father's command and enter the kingdom, I become one who has lost moral honour towards My father. I would give up even My life, but I will never give up moral worth,” he said firmly. The story of Rāma has been teaching the world that a moral life, a life of Dharma and a life of sacrifice are the chief principles for man.

Sons who are not blessed with their mother's gaze cannot be blessed with God's gaze either

One who is not blessed with a mother's Prema and a mother's gaze may well be called most unfortunate. Here we must consider another episode, from the Bhārata war. After all the Kauravas had been slain, while the blind Dhṛtarāṣṭra and Gāndhārī were grieving, Kṛṣṇa went to console them. Shaking with anger she could not contain, Gāndhārī went on reviling Kṛṣṇa in many ways. Then Kṛṣṇa: “Gāndhārī! You are badly mistaken. From the day they were born, did you even once raise your eyes and look at your sons? How can the Kauravas, who were never blessed even with their mother's gaze, come into My sight?” He said. So sons who have never come under their mother's gaze cannot come under God's gaze either. Such sacred principles of Dharma have perished in Bhārata today. Dedicating our lives to nothing but selfishness and self-interest, we have kept forgetting Godhood, divinity and the sacred. Men are losing morality and honesty. Judged by the history now unfolding in Bhārata, Bhārata has sunk very low, in morality.

For the prosperity of the country, men must live in unity

Embodiments of Prema! We must recognise the Satya that for mankind morality comes first. We must carry out our duties. In unity we must take part in the service of society. Unity itself is the great strength.