Passage 1

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In plain words

‘An eternal portion of Myself has become the living being in the world of the living.’ You are no strangers; you are none other than embodiments of the Paramātma!

This land of Bhārata is the motherland that gave birth to great souls who won fame across continent after continent. From time without beginning, many maharṣis in India spread and taught the Rāma principle and the greatness of Rāma's name, made their time fruitful, and earned a good name. The Rāmāyaṇa took place many thousands of years ago, in the Tretā Yuga. The Rāmāyaṇa of that age has stayed on, even to this day, lasting in the hearts of all, from children to elders. In every village the people have built a temple to Rāma and joyfully remember Rāma's name, saying ‘Rāma, Rāma, Rāma’. An Indian who does not remember Rāma's name is nowhere to be seen. Whatever name they forget, no one forgets the name of Rāma; no one can forget it. Be it a man too poor for a meal or a man worth crores, when hardship comes they go on calling ‘Rāma’ to mind. Yet Rāma never once asked for His name to be remembered. “All of you are My own embodiments,” He said.

Dharma is not in some one special place. What dwells in all is one Dharma alone. Rāma is the embodiment of Dharma. Dharma was born of the root principle called Satya. “There is no Dharma higher than Satya.” Without Satya there is no Dharma at all. So, first of all, we must practise Satya. What we say, that we must do. When saying is one thing and doing another, it turns into adharma. Doing just as one says is the foremost duty of man. But before saying anything, we should think it over well, weigh what comes before and after, make firm in our mind that ‘this is right’, and only then speak. What Rāma said was one thing and one thing only: we must practise Satya. With Satya as our basis we must nourish Dharma.