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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.62.5

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

3.62.5

yadi duḥkham idaṃ prāptaṃ kākutstha na sahiṣyase
prākṛtaś cālpasattvaś ca itaraḥ kaḥ sahiṣyati

“If you, O Kākutstha, will not endure this grief that has come upon you, what other man, being common and of small spirit, could endure it?

Words: yadi — if; duḥkham — grief, sorrow; idaṃ — this; prāptaṃ — come, obtained; kākutstha — O Kākutstha; na — not; sahiṣyase — you will endure; prākṛtaś — common, ordinary; cālpasattvaś — and of small spirit; ca — and; itaraḥ — other; kaḥ — who; sahiṣyati — will endure

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.