Chapter 2 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 2

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 2.13

यद्यप्येषा मम प्रीतिर्हितमन्यद् विचिन्त्यताम्। अन्या मध्यस्थचिन्ता तु विमर्दाभ्यधिकोदया॥

yadyapyeṣā mama prītirhitamanyad vicintyatām| anyā madhyasthacintā tu vimardābhyadhikodayā||

English Meaning

If I have thought thus solely because I find delight in it, do you look about any other way to welfare. For different is the thought of the dispassionate; and by friction becomes far more efficacious.* *This is Mill's principle of free and equal discussion so lucidity upheld in his Liberty. The meaning in the text is obscurely expressed. The thought of the dispassionate is different from that of the passionate; and truth comes out from the friction of the two opposite forces.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)