Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa · Sarga 2.108
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2.108.1
आश्वासयन्तं भरतं जाबालिर्ब्राह्मणोत्तमः ।
उवाच रामं धर्मज्ञं धर्मापेतमिदं वचः ॥ २.१०८.१ ॥
Jābāli, the best of brāhmaṇas, consoling Bharata, spoke these words, departed from dharma, to Rāma, the knower of dharma.
2.108.2
साधु राघव माभूत्ते बुद्धिरेवं निरर्थिका ।
प्राकृतस्य नरस्येव ह्यार्यबुद्धेर्मनस्विनः ॥ २.१०८.२ ॥
Well, Rāghava, let your intellect not be so pointless. For even like an ordinary man, such a thought is futile in one of noble and high-minded intellect.
2.108.3
कः कस्य पुरुषो बन्धुः किमाप्यं कस्य केनचित् ।
यदेको जायते जन्तुरेक एव विनश्यति ॥ २.१०८.३ ॥
Who is whose kinsman, and what can be gained from whom by anyone? For a living being is born alone and alone it perishes.
2.108.4
तस्मान्माता पिता चेति राम सज्जेतयो नरः ।
उन्मत्त इव स ज्ञेयो नास्ति कश्चिद्धि कस्यचित् ॥ २.१०८.४ ॥
Therefore, Rāma, a man who clings, saying 'this is mother, this is father,' should be regarded as mad, for in truth there is no one who belongs to anyone.
2.108.5
यथा ग्रामान्तरं गच्छन् नरः कश्चित् क्वचिद्वसेत् ।
उत्सृज्य च तमावासं प्रतिष्ठेतापरे ऽहनि ॥ २.१०८.५ ॥
As a man, going to another village, may stay somewhere, and then, leaving that dwelling, sets out again on another day.
2.108.6
एवमेव मनुष्याणां पिता माता गृहं वसु ।
आवासमात्रं काकुत्स्थ सज्जन्ते नात्र सज्जनाः ॥ २.१०८.६ ॥
Just so, for men, father, mother, house and wealth are merely a dwelling place; O Kākutstha, good people do not cling to them here.
2.108.7
पित्र्यं राज्यं परित्यज्य स नार्हसि नरोत्तम ।
आस्थातुं कापथं दुःखं विषमं बहुकण्टकम् ॥ २.१०८.७ ॥
O best of men, having abandoned the ancestral kingdom, you ought not to take up that painful, rough, thorn-filled wrong path.
2.108.8
समृद्धायामयोध्यायामात्मानमभिषेचय ।
एकवेणी धरा हि त्वां नगरी सम्प्रतीक्षते ॥ २.१०८.८ ॥
Anoint yourself in prosperous Ayodhyā; this earth and city, wearing a single braid, are waiting for you.
2.108.9
राजभोगाननुभवन् महार्हान् पार्थिवात्मज ।
विहर त्वमयोध्यायां यथा शक्रस्त्रिविष्टपे ॥ २.१०८.९ ॥
Enjoying the most precious royal pleasures, O son of the king, roam in Ayodhyā as Indra roams in heaven.
2.108.10
न ते कश्चिद्दशरथस्त्वं च तस्य न कश्चन ।
अन्यो राजा त्वमन्यः स तस्मात् कुरु यदुच्यते ॥ २.१०८.१० ॥
Daśaratha is no one to you, nor are you anything to him; he is another king and you are another. Therefore do what is said.
2.108.11
बीजमात्रं पिता जन्तोः शुक्लं रुधिरमेव च ।
संयुक्तमृतुमन्मात्रा पुरुषस्येह जन्म तत् ॥ २.१०८.११ ॥
The father is merely the seed of a creature, being white seed and blood; joined with the mother in her season, this is the birth of a man here.
2.108.12
गतः स नृपतिस्तत्र गन्तव्यं यत्र तेन वै ।
प्रवृत्तिरेषा मर्त्त्यानां त्वं तु मिथ्या विहन्यसे ॥ २.१०८.१२ ॥
That king has gone to where all must go; this is the course of mortals. But you are vainly destroying yourself.
2.108.13
अर्थधर्मपरा ये ये तांस्तान् शोचामि नेतरान् ।
ते हि दुःखमिह प्राप्य विनाशं प्रेत्य भेजिरे ॥ २.१०८.१३ ॥
I grieve only for those who were devoted to wealth and dharma, not for the others; having met with suffering here, they went to destruction after death.
2.108.14
अष्टका पितृदैवत्यमित्ययं प्रसृतो जनः ।
अन्नस्योपद्रवं पश्य मृतो हि किमशिष्यति ॥ २.१०८.१४ ॥
People have spread the belief that the aṣṭakā offering is for the ancestors. Look at this waste of food: what will the dead man eat?
2.108.15
यदि भुक्तमिहान्येन देहमन्यस्य गच्छति ।
दद्यात् प्रवसतः श्राद्धं न तत् पथ्यशनं भवेत् ॥ २.१०८.१५ ॥
If food eaten here by one person reaches another's body, then the śrāddha should be offered to a traveller away from home; but that food would not be wholesome for him.
2.108.16
दानसंवनना ह्येते ग्रन्था मेधाविभिः कृताः ।
यजस्व देहि दीक्षस्व तपस्तप्यस्व सन्त्यज ॥ २.१०८.१६ ॥
These treatises were composed by wise men on the basis of giving: perform sacrifice, give gifts, take initiation, practise austerity, and then renounce.
2.108.17
स नास्ति परमित्येव कुरु बुद्धिं महामते ।
प्रत्यक्षं यत्तदातिष्ठ परोक्षं पृष्ठतः कुरु ॥ २.१०८.१७ ॥
Settle your mind on this: 'There is no beyond.' O greatly wise one, hold to what is seen, and set what is unseen behind you.
2.108.18
स तां बुद्धिं पुरस्कृत्य सर्वलोकनिदर्शिनीम् ।
राज्यं त्वं प्रतिगृह्णीष्व भरतेन प्रसादितः ॥ २.१०८.१८ ॥
Keeping before you that wisdom which shows the way to all worlds, and having been won over by Bharata, accept the kingdom.