In plain words
But there was no happiness, no Śānti. That is why Rāvaṇa was great in physical riches. He was great in physical happiness and peace. He was great in physical cleverness. He was great in physical learning. But he was not good. Rāma was good. By what? He put the learning he had acquired well into practice and digested it. This digested food gives the mind sight, satisfaction and strength. Through it, life takes the shape of an exemplary life. Rāma was one who had digested the learning he studied. So he went on spending his time in constant Ānanda and Śānti. The Ānanda he experienced at the time of his coronation, that same Ānanda he experienced at the time of going to the forest. He was one who had digested what he studied. ‘Sukhe duḥkhe samekṛtvā lābhelābhau jayāpajayāt.’ He stays even in both, in happiness and in sorrow. The Vedas and the Śāstras have given such a one the name ‘paṇḍitaḥ’. Who is a paṇḍita? Is the one who has grandly learnt the Vedas, the Śāstras, the Itihāsas and the Purāṇas a paṇḍita? Is the one who has mastered all the Śāstras a paṇḍita? No, no. ‘Paṇḍitāḥ sama darśinaḥ’, it was said. The one who has equal vision is a paṇḍita. Scholarship does not come from paltry learning. Education is what digests what has been studied and makes it flow like blood into every vein. Just as blood is supplied to the whole body, this learning too, and along with the learning good qualities too, must be supplied. But Rāvaṇa could not digest it. Rāvaṇa, who had learnt the sixty-four branches of learning, came down with the disease of indigestion. He did not put it into practice. It turned into indigestion. What is the fruit of this indigestion? Ahaṅkāra and ostentation grew. Because he cannot digest what he has studied, man falls prey to the diseases called Ahaṅkāra and ostentation. Learning that cannot be digested leads to ill health. Learning digested is Ānanda.