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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.62.15

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

3.62.15

tattvato hi naraśreṣṭha buddhyā samanucintaya
buddhyā yuktā mahāprājñā vijānanti śubhāśubhe

“Reflect well upon the truth, O best of men, with your reason; for the greatly wise, endowed with reason, discern good and evil.

Words: tattvato — in truth, according to reality; hi — for; naraśreṣṭha — O best of men; buddhyā — with reason, intellect; samanucintaya — reflect well, consider; buddhyā — with reason; yuktā — endowed; mahāprājñā — the greatly wise; vijānanti — discern, know; śubhāśubhe — good and evil

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.