Chapter 8 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 8

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 8.20

अनर्थर्शिनी मौानात्मानमवबुध्यसे। शोकव्यसनविस्तीर्णे मज्जन्ती दुःखसागरे॥

anartharśinī mauānātmānamavabudhyase| śokavyasanavistīrṇe majjantī duḥkhasāgare||

English Meaning

Regarding that to be evil which is your good, you do not through your want of understanding know that you are going to be drowned in a sea of grief and peril.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)