As people cannot see the soul which governs all objects of sense so they could not see Rāma, who was thus inflicting wounds on them.
प्रहरन्तं शरीरेषु न ते पश्यन्ति राघवम्। इन्द्रियार्थेषु तिष्ठन्तं भूतात्मानामिव प्रजाः॥