Thus Spake Sri Rama

The sayings in this section have been collected from various sources like the Valmiki Ramayana, Adhyatma Ramayana and the Yoga Vasishtha Ramayana. 

• A frog caught by a serpent, while sitting in the latter's mouth with half its body already swallowed, puts out its tongue and tries to catch hold of the small flies that happen to come near it. Similarly man, even when he is already caught by the serpent of Time, searches for sense enjoyments which are transitory. He works very hard day and night undergoing much trouble to get it.
• Those philosophers whose minds are deluded by My own Maya, do not understand Me who has assumed this human form. They think I am affected by happiness and misery.
• The false idea that this body etc. is the Atman, is what is called Maya, and it is on account of this identification of the Atman with the body, that this Samsara is created mentally. This world has no separate existence; it exists only in our imagination just as we imagine the existence of a snake in the rope.
• When you are able to know the Paramatman by the process of 'neti, neti' (not this, not this), then only you can give up all work; until then you have to carry on doing you duties. The moment the realization comes that Atman is different from the body, senses etc., delusion (Maya), which is the root cause of Samsara, is destroyed.