In plain words
Then Viśvāmitra: “Rāma! Bow Your head; Sītā must put the garland around Your neck,” he said. To that Rāma: “Gurudeva! If I bow my head to a woman in so great an assembly, what of my honour? What of the family's honour? So I will not bow my head,” He replied. Arguments of this kind were going on. Then Rāma made a sign to Lakṣmaṇa. Taking Lakṣmaṇa to be the right one to pull every string, Rāma signed to him to raise a little the ground on which Sītā stood. Lakṣmaṇa had a very subtle mind.
Would a monkey cross the ocean? Would Lakṣmī love? Would Lakṣmaṇa serve? Would Lakṣmaṇa of subtle mind look and look, and bow down? Ah, how great is Bhakti to Rāma!
No one had the Bhakti that Lakṣmaṇa had for Rāma. Lakṣmaṇa had offered his heart wholly to Rāma. Lakṣmaṇa of subtle mind came and fell at Rāma's feet. To raise him, Rāma bent a little. At once Sītā put the garland around Rāma's neck. As Rāma bowed His head to lift Lakṣmaṇa up, Sītā, of a mind subtler even than this, at once put the garland around Rāma's neck. Such is the harmony an ideal wife and husband have.
Those who understand the essence of the Upaniṣads attain God
If we wish to attain divinity, we must earn the power that befits that divinity. That itself is true spirituality. This itself is the essence of the Upaniṣads. If you win God's grace, if you take in the essence of the Upaniṣads, everything will come under your sway. So God comes within reach only of those who have understood the principle of the Upaniṣads well. If we ask, “What is He like, whose form is the Upaniṣad?”: is He Rāma? Kṛṣṇa? Govinda? Nārāyaṇa? No, not this. That power has no form at all. This Navarātri is the very form of that infinite power. It is Śiva-Śakti in person, whose form is Jñāna. There is nothing in it but perfect Jñāna.