I loved the way Ram explained his stance to Lakshman. It was no longer their personal battle. It was the battle for the larger good of man kind. For the larger good of humanity. So when you say larger good of humanity each action taken for that has to worth emulating. It has to set a standard for others to follow.
I would say this is what taking up responsibility means. You can go and preach anything to anyone. But you cannot influence if you dont show your words in action. After doing love marriage it is easy to tell it is better to have arranged marriage. But does that hold water. When it was you, when it was your emotions what did you do. You went against your parents and did manmani. So how can you tell another person obey parents.
It is same with everything. Without getting a merit seat of B-Tech, I cannot go , get merit seat. So only through actions you get power to speak.
So your actions has to be impeccable. You will have to take lot of personal pain to keep your actions impeccable. It is easy to lose ground when you get influenced by circumstances. But a real fighter rises above circumstances to see right and wrong. Circumstances dont make them react, they act creating circumstances.
So if you want power, if you want to reform correct your actions. Make them inline with maryada. So that generation remember and emulate those actions just like centuries later we are looking at Shri Ram