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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.62.7

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 cites misfortune even among the great: Yayāti's fall, Vasiṣṭha's loss of a hundred sons, the earth's tremors, and eclipses of the sun and moon

3.62.7

lokasvabhāva evaiṣa yayātir nahuṣātmajaḥ
gataḥ śakreṇa sālokyam anayas taṃ samaspṛśat

“This is the very nature of the world: Yayāti, son of Nahuṣa, having attained a shared abode with Indra, was yet touched by ruin.

Words: lokasvabhāva — the nature of the world; evaiṣa — this indeed; yayātir — Yayāti; nahuṣātmajaḥ — son of Nahuṣa; gataḥ — gone, attained; śakreṇa — with Śakra (Indra); sālokyam — shared abode, dwelling in the same world; anayas — ruin, misfortune; taṃ — him; samaspṛśat — touched, befell

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.