In plain words
But a brother like Lakṣmaṇa is not to be had. What use is there in my living without Lakṣmaṇa?” So he lamented, in deep grief.
When Bharata came back to Ayodhyā from his uncle's kingdom and learnt that Rāma had gone to the forest and would not return for fourteen years, he was stunned. At once he went to Vasiṣṭha and bowed to him: “Gurudeva! What is this kingdom to me, the kingdom that sent Rāma to the forest? Rāma, the eldest son, alone has the right to this kingdom. So I shall go to the forest this very moment, hold Rāma's feet and pray to him, bring him back to Ayodhyā and crown him,” he said. In this way those four brothers were ready to make any sacrifice for one another.
Rāma consoles his mother
Rāma put on clothes of bark, ready to go to the forest, and went to his mother's house to take leave of her before he went. She was waiting with great eagerness and joy, thinking Rāma would come to her house finely adorned and ready for the coronation. But when she saw Sītā and Rāma come in clothes of bark, she stood stunned. “My son! Are these the clothes to be worn for a coronation?” Even as she was asking this, Rāma, with a smile: “Mother! Today my father has crowned me king of the kingdom of the forest. The demons are tormenting in many ways the ṛṣis and munis who do tapas in the forest. So I am going to the forest to destroy the demons and protect the ṛṣis and munis. To carry out my father's word comes first for me,” he said. Then Kausalyā: “My son! It is true, you must carry out your father's word! But I am your mother, am I not? You must bow to my command too, the command of your father's other half! You were born to me as the fruit of many vows. I cannot live a moment apart from you. So take me too with you to the forest,” she begged. Then Rāma: “Mother!