In plain words
Śrī Rāma demonstrated equanimity in hardship and happiness
That is why Rāma, as an exemplar, went to the forest to keep his father's word and fell into many kinds of hardship. But did he go under some compulsion? Or did he go in discontent? Or did he go with a vow, taking it as some kind of father's command? No, no. With the very joy with which he had come to the coronation, with the very gladness with which he had stepped forward, with that same step and that same gladness he went to the forest too. Rāma is one who demonstrated equanimity. ‘Holding alike pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat’: in man's life, pleasures and sorrows are, in a way, natural. But to long for pleasure and to shun sorrow is not a virtue in us. With whatever heart you welcome pleasures, with that same feeling you must welcome sorrow too. If there were no sorrow at all, happiness would have no value at all. This very thing has been said. ‘Na sukhāt labhyate sukham’, it has been said. Happiness does not come to us from happiness. Happiness comes to us out of sorrow itself. Out of darkness comes only darkness; light does not come. Only when light comes does darkness go away. Only when there has been darkness does light shine afterwards. If there were no darkness, light would have no brightness at all. If sorrow did not exist, happiness would be of no worth whatever. So our happiness is something we gain through sorrow alone; happiness is not gained from happiness. He proclaimed this sacred ideal to the world and demonstrated it. He himself demonstrated every single thing as an ideal. He lived out the dharmas of these three, the dharma of the individual, the dharma of the family and the dharma of society, and demonstrated them.
The dharma of the individual must be achieved first of all
That is why we must first of all achieve the one dharma that belongs to the individual. I live as an individual. What does vyakti mean? Only one who makes manifest a firmness that lies unmanifest and hidden is a vyakti.