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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.62.4
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 reminds him how dearly Daśaratha obtained and loved him, and asks how ordinary people could bear suffering if Rāma cannot
3.62.4
tava caiva guṇair baddhas tvadviyogān mahīpatiḥ
rājā devatvam āpanno bharatasya yathā śrutam
“Bound by your virtues, the lord of earth — the king — through separation from you attained godhood, as Bharata has heard.
Words: tava — your; caiva — and indeed; guṇair — by the virtues; baddhas — bound; tvadviyogān — from separation from you; mahīpatiḥ — the lord of earth; rājā — the king; devatvam — godhood; āpanno — attained; bharatasya — by Bharata, to Bharata; yathā — as; śrutam — (it was) heard
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.