In plain words
That very place is the human heart. That is where Rāma lives. In the human heart of today, anguish of one kind or another arises every moment. First of all, the human heart must become Ayodhyā. It must be pure, steady and free of turmoil. Only then will Rāma enter it and show the right path. Though He was God, Rāma moved about like an ordinary human being. So today the ordinary human being must move about as Rāma did. Only then can true Bhakti and prapatti grow.
The Rāma principle
Many secrets lie hidden in the sacred Rāma principle. But Rāma never taught these secrets to anyone, anywhere, at any time. What is the reason? Once a fruit is ripe, it cannot but fall. In the same way, feeling that His teaching would not be understood until the hearts of the people had ripened, Rāma moved about like an ordinary human being. He met hardship and loss, blame and reproach with courage and daring, and revealed His divinity. He did not swell with pleasures, nor sink under sorrows. Towards blame and praise He kept an even mind. “Sukhaduḥkhe samekṛtvā lābhā lābhau jayā jayau.” But devotees today swell with joy when pleasure comes and sink when sorrow comes. What is the root cause of this? Nothing but attachment to the body!
Today we do many sādhanas, we recite stotras, we sing kīrtanas. But all of these show themselves as merely external. For whom are we doing them? For what are we doing them? Such questions no one puts to himself. A disciple once lived with a guru. One day he went home, shut the doors so that nothing should disturb his sādhana, and sat chanting a hymn to the guru. At that very time the guru went to his house. It was high noon, so outside the sun was blazing, and below, the feet were burning. Unable to bear it, the guru knocked at the door, calling out loudly, “Hey, disciple! Disciple!” “Who are you?” asked the disciple. “It is I! Your guru,” he said. “I am doing pūjā. It must not be broken. Wait a little while,” said the disciple. When the guru asked, “Whose pūjā are you doing?” he answered, “It is your pūjā I am doing.” While doing pūjā to the guru, he kept the guru himself standing in the sun! The sādhanas of today are just like this too. Why do guru-pūjā without honouring the guru? In the same way, if we do not recognise the Rāma principle that is in the heart, there is no use in worshipping Rāma, however much we do it. All these pūjās are bound up with attachment to the body. Sādhakas must first of all become attached to the Ātma. However many births we take, the bodies keep changing, but the mind does not change. So the sādhanas done with the mind cannot give us Mukti. We must set the mind aside, keep the Ātma as our goal and do sādhana. Only then does human life fulfil its purpose.