Chapter 106 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 106

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 106.3

यथा मृतस्तथा जीवन् यथासति तथा सति। यस्यैष बुद्धिलाभः स्यात् परितप्येत केन सः॥

yathā mṛtastathā jīvan yathāsati tathā sati| yasyaiṣa buddhilābhaḥ syāt paritapyeta kena saḥ||

English Meaning

‘Living like to dead and existing like to nonexisting', what shall make a person that has attained this intellectual state, grieve?

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)