Passage 10

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In plain words

Only when you sacrifice does enjoyment come,’ He taught. Vasiṣṭha, who had gone along, heard Rāma's teaching of Dharma and shed tears of joy. So you must always speak with Prema. We must try to lessen the suffering of the people to some extent. To look on our fellow men with Prema and regard all as one's own self: that alone is true Dharma. Dharma does not mean merely giving alms and charity. You must make sacrifice from the heart. You must love everyone and draw them close. You must not think of anyone as some outsider. If there is this one thing, Prema, you can sustain any number of people. So what we must learn, what we must foster, is Prema itself! We must love mother, father and God. If your mother is suffering, what is the use of loving others, however much? So first of all, love the mother who bore you, and your father. After that, love the people. This is what Rāma taught Bharata.

Sacrifice itself is true enjoyment

Students! From tomorrow on, as far as possible, do not look on anyone with a narrow feeling. Look with a broad feeling. ‘All are just like me! Brother! Let us eat together; come,’ so you must call the one beside you. You must not eat alone. You must not regard anyone as a poor man or as a beggar. All are rich! There is no way anyone can be poor. Our feelings are turning poor, but in those people there is never any such thing as poverty. Rāma, Lakṣmaṇa, Bharata and Śatrughna were large-hearted. Sītā rejoiced that she had come as a daughter-in-law into the house of such people. When her father, King Janaka, proclaimed Sītā's svayaṃvara and said he would give Sītā in marriage to whoever strung Śiva's bow, Rāma strung Śiva's bow with ease. Not only that. Śrī Rāmacandra had the strength to lift not Śiva's bow alone but even ten such bows. Why so? Rāma is the embodiment of Dharma. Dharma itself is holy in every way, and mighty. These, Rāma, Lakṣmaṇa, Bharata and Śatrughna, were like the segments of a single fruit.