In plain words
Vālmīki wrote that God, who is known through the Vedas, was born as the son of Daśaratha and flourishes in the world as Śrī Rāmacandra. He described, too, how He moves about like an ordinary human being. In such a Rāma, Vālmīki saw God. But Rāvaṇa saw Rāma as a man. Rāma is Dharma; Rāvaṇa is Adharma. So the whole of the Rāmāyaṇa is a battlefield of Dharma and Adharma, a game of chess between Dharma and Adharma.
Rāvaṇa gave this world a fine message. What is it? “O people! Do not live as I lived and ruin your lives. Unable to conquer my longings, unable to kill my desires, I brought ruin on my very own line. I had my own sons, brothers, kinsmen and friends killed. In the end I too perished,” he said. Only when he is joined to good conduct does a man become good. Rāvaṇa tried to become great, but he did not try to become good. Rāma, for His part, tried to become good, but He did not aspire to become great. Today the world has urgent need of the story of Rāma. The reason is this - sons do not obey their father's command, and fathers do not hold up the right ideal to their sons. Disciples do not honour their gurus, and gurus do not look on their disciples with affection. Between kinsmen and friends, enmity is growing. Pollution fills all the fields of farming, trade and politics. In the end, even the spiritual field is becoming polluted. If we inquire well, it becomes plain that selfishness alone is the root cause of this. The water all of us drink is one. The air all of us breathe is one. Over the heads of all there is one sky alone. Under the feet of all there is one earth alone. The universe itself is one home. All human beings are brothers. First of all we must recognise this oneness.
The heart itself is Ayodhyā
Rāma went on demonstrating the Dharma of the individual, the Dharma of society and the Dharma of the family. The story of Rāma is itself the Triveṇī confluence of these three Dharmas. Those who bathe in this Triveṇī confluence have their sins washed away and their curses rooted out. Every human being must remember this divine story, embrace it and cross over. The story of Rāma cannot be described as being like this or like that. One may count even the waves in the ocean, but no one can count the virtues of Rāma. Rāma ruled Ayodhyā. What does Ayodhyā mean? A place that warriors and enemies cannot reach.