I tried summarizing some of the Guru ji Sri Bhasyham Appalacharya swami's Ramayana pravachanams:
1. The roles of Rama, Lakshmana, Bharatha, Shatrugna can be interpreted as Dharma, Artha, Moksha and Kama. Artha and Kaama should never stay together since they can lead to chaos if they take unrighteous path. Hence Artha should be tied together with Dharma and Kaama should be tied with Moksha (i.e., all our kaamyams (desires) should be in such a way that they lead to moksham).
This is analogous to Lakshmana accompanying Rama and Shatrugna accompanying Bharatha always.
2. Lord Hanuman flying across the sea is interpreted as follows:
Lord Hanuman crossing the sea to reach lanka teaches few things:
1. His Dhruthi (i.e., perseverance) to cross the ocean and meet mother Sita. This is analogous to: Dhruthi is the main quality a sadhaka who wants to realize the athma tattvam/divinity. Here ocean corresponds to samsara. A sadhaka should cross the this samsara to attain mokskam.
2. Lord Hanuman did not swim in the ocean to reach Lanka. He flew over it. It is not that he is not capable of swimming the huge ocean. But he flew over it. This is analogous to: one can not swim in this samsara to attain moksha. He will simply be drowned in it. Swiming in samsara means having sangam with samsara (i.e., attachment with wife, children etc.,). One has to cross over it. That means, he may be living in samsara, but without having sangam (attachment) to it. It is like sailing in a boat in a river. But water should not come into the boat, otherwise, the boat will sink. Hence Lord Hanuman did not swim, he flew over the sea.
3. While he was going across the sea, Meru mountain with its golden shikharas came up in the sea. The mountain is full of greenery, with many fruits and honey everywhere. Such a nice forest on the mountain is very tempting for a typical vanara to stop, stay there and have fruits/honey etc.,. But Lord Hanuman did not feel like that. He felt that it might be a vignam (obstacle) to his lakhsyam (aim) and he just ignored and went ahead. This is analogous to: a sadhaka will see many tempting materialistic things in his life. But he should not deviate from his pursuit of attaining moksham. He should win over his indriya vyamohas and feel that they are obstacle to attain god.
4. Further, while traveling across the sea, Surasa came as an obstruction with a devilish appearance. She wanted to swallow him. He told the purpose of his travel and tried to convince her. She did not listen and wanted to swallow. She opened her mouth widely. Lord Hanuman also increased his body taller/wider than her widened mouth. Then she widened her mouth further greater than hanuman's body. Again Hanuman increased his body further. This continued few times. Then he immediately became thumb size and entered into her mouth and came back in few seconds and fulfilled her wish. She was pleased with his buddhi balam.
This is analogous to: Surasa signifies rasa, which is related to indriyas. So in our life, there is no end for our sensual/indriya desires. No matter how many u satisfy, indriyas want lot more (i.e., Surasa enlarging her mouth further when Lord hanuman increased his body size). So the solution is, using our budhhi, we should control our desires (This is similar Hanuman thinking wisey and reducing himself to thumb size). We should not become slaves to senses and try satisfying the senses. This is the only way we can supress our indriya vyamohas.
So to summarize, a sadhaka should have the following qualities:
1. He should have the dhruthi (perseverance) to do sadhana to attain liberation.
2. He should not get tempted or should not become slave to many sensual gratification things in his life.
3. He should control his indriya vyamohas. Otherwise, there is no end for this sensual desires.
4. He should not keep sangam (i.e., deep attachment whithout which one can not live ) with samsara while he is in it.
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