What is the royal path to realizing oneness with the Divine? Bhagawan lovingly guides us with memorable examples today. Ramayana has to be read not as a record of a human career but as the narrative of the advent and activities of an incarnation of God (Avatar). One must endeavour with determination to realise through one’s own experience the ideals revealed in that narrative. God is all-knowing, all-pervasive, and all-powerful. The words He utters while embodied in the human form, the acts He deigns to indulge in during His earthly sojourn — these are inscrutable and extraordinarily significant. The precious springs of His message ease the path of deliverance for mankind. Don’t look upon Rama as a scion of the Solar dynasty, the sovereign of the kingdom of Ayodhya, or the son of Emperor Dasaratha. These correlates are but accessory and accidental. This error has become habitual in modern readers; they pay attention only to the personal relationship and affiliations between the characters of the story they read; they don’t delve into the values they represent and demonstrate!