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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.62.11
Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 62: Lakṣmaṇa recalls Rāma’s own teaching. Even the great suffer loss, judgment and effort must survive grief so that the enemy can be found and defeated
In the sequence: he cites misfortune even among the great: Yayāti's fall, Vasiṣṭha's loss of a hundred sons, the earth's tremors, and eclipses of the sun and moon
3.62.11
sumahānty api bhūtāni devāś ca puruṣarṣabha
na daivasya pramuñcanti sarvabhūtāni dehinaḥ
“Even the mightiest beings and the gods, O bull among men — all embodied beings do not escape from fate.
Words: sumahānty — exceedingly great; api — even; bhūtāni — beings; devāś — the gods; ca — and; puruṣarṣabha — O bull among men; na — not; daivasya — from fate, destiny; pramuñcanti — escape, are released; sarvabhūtāni — all beings; dehinaḥ — the embodied ones
Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki, the ādikavi of the ādikāvya: the first poet of the first poem. Sanskrit: The Vālmīki-Rāmāyaṇa: Critical Edition, Oriental Institute, Baroda, 1960–1975 (gen. eds. G. H. Bhatt, U. P. Shah); IAST from GRETIL (Göttingen). Translation and word glosses: Claude Opus 4.6–4.7; summaries and sequences: ChatGPT Astra (machine-made). Numbering follows the Critical Edition, not the vulgate (e.g. Gita Press, valmikiramayan.net), so sarga and verse numbers can differ from those editions.