In plain words
That was because he made use of the virtues that were in him. Rāvaṇa too was not without virtues. But he did not put them into practice. You must become good. Win the good name that all the people of Bhārata are good.
What are we achieving for having come into this world? What is the supreme goal of our life? Ask yourselves this, just once. “Eating, drinking, sleeping, dying”: were you born only for this? No, no. Birds and beasts, too, enjoy all these. Even they have a ‘reason’ and a ‘season’. But man today behaves with neither a ‘reason’ nor a ‘season’; giving in to vices, he wastes the sacred power of his senses. Only when you put the senses to good use can you become good people.
Man today forgets his duty and scrambles after power. If you want power, you must first do your duty. You must give no room to ostentation. You must put away vices, evil thinking and wickedness, and cultivate Bhakti, discipline and the doing of duty. There is no use in merely filling your heads with what is in books. You must develop Prema. You must regard all as brothers and sisters, and cherish them. You must lovingly help those who are in distress. You must keep your self-respect. You must develop self-confidence. Only then will humanness turn into divinity.
In the Bhagavad Gītā Kṛṣṇa said, “Mamaivāṃśo jīvaloke jīvabhūtaḥ sanātanaḥ.” Deluded by the body, you think you are human beings, but all of you are born of a portion of God. Whether Hindus, Christians, Sikhs or Muslims... the divinity in all is one. There is just one caste, and that is the caste of humanity. There is just one religion, and that is the religion of Prema. So live your lives in unity, close to one another. Today village folk alone have some closeness and unity. In the towns, one to another, “Hello, how are you? ...” they say in greeting, but there is no closeness or unity between them.