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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.62.16

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

3.62.16

adṛṣṭaguṇadoṣāṇām adhṛtānāṃ ca karmaṇām
nāntareṇa kriyāṃ teṣāṃ phalam iṣṭaṃ pravartate

“Of deeds whose merits and faults are unseen and which are not firmly settled, the desired fruit does not come about without action.

Words: adṛṣṭaguṇadoṣāṇām — whose merits and faults are unseen; adhṛtānāṃ — unfixed, not firmly determined; ca — and; karmaṇām — of deeds; nāntareṇa — not without; kriyāṃ — action, effort; teṣāṃ — of them; phalam — fruit, result; iṣṭaṃ — desired; pravartate — comes about, arises

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.