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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.62.18

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 says he is only awakening the wisdom Rāma himself has taught him → Rāma should use his strength to discover and defeat the actual enemy, not destroy all beings.

3.62.18

buddhiś ca te mahāprājña devair api duranvayā
śokenābhiprasuptaṃ te jñānaṃ saṃbodhayāmy aham

“Your wisdom, O greatly wise one, is hard even for the gods to fathom; I but rouse the knowledge in you that has fallen asleep through grief.

Words: buddhiś — the wisdom, intellect; ca — and; te — your; mahāprājña — O greatly wise one; devair — by the gods; api — even; duranvayā — hard to follow, hard to fathom; śokenābhiprasuptaṃ — fallen asleep through grief; te — your; jñānaṃ — knowledge; saṃbodhayāmy — I rouse, awaken; aham — I

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.