Why is love considered a supreme virtue and the source of all other values? Bhagawan explains, drawing examples from the Ramayana today.

When the Queen Kaikeyi persuaded her husband to agree to her two requests—enthroning her son Bharatha as the Crown Prince and sending the legitimate Rama into exile for fourteen years—Lakshmana, another brother of Rama and Bharatha, did not acquiesce tamely. He argued that man must meet every little crisis with courage and self-reliance, and that he should not yield cravenly to the machinations of intrigue. He boasted that his arrow can avert any crisis! But the arrow is an inferior weapon, even a negligible weapon, when compared with the efficacy of Love. Rama heard him coolly and advised him to desist from that hasty karma (action); "Dharma (virtue) must guide karma," he said. Then alone can it be praiseworthy and successful. Kausalya, the mother of Rama, reconciled herself to the sudden turn of events; she blessed her son when he left as a hermit for the jungle, “May the Dharma which you represent guard you.” That Dharma is expressed as Love, Love towards human, sub-human, superhuman, animal, bird and beast.