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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.62.14

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 urges Rāma to maintain judgment and hope rather than surrender to grief

3.62.14

tvadvidhā hi na śocanti satataṃ satyadarśinaḥ
sumahatsv api kṛcchreṣu rāmānirviṇṇadarśaṇāḥ

“For men like you, ever seers of truth, do not grieve even in the greatest hardships, Rāma, keeping their outlook undespairing.

Words: tvadvidhā — those of your kind; hi — for; na — not; śocanti — grieve; satataṃ — ever, constantly; satyadarśinaḥ — seers of truth; sumahatsv — in exceedingly great; api — even; kṛcchreṣu — in hardships, troubles; rāmānirviṇṇadarśaṇāḥ — O Rāma, (they) of undespairing outlook

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.