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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.62.12
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
3.62.12
śakrādiṣv api deveṣu vartamānau nayānayau
śrūyete naraśārdūla na tvaṃ vyathitum arhasi
“Good fortune and ill are heard to prevail even among the gods, Indra foremost, O tiger among men; you ought not to be shaken.
Words: śakrādiṣv — among Śakra and the rest; api — even; deveṣu — among the gods; vartamānau — prevailing, existing; nayānayau — fortune and misfortune, right and wrong course; śrūyete — are heard; naraśārdūla — O tiger among men; na — not; tvaṃ — you; vyathitum — to be shaken, distressed; arhasi — you ought
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.