Chapter 30 — Kishkindha Kanda, Sarga 30

Valmiki Ramayana — Kishkindha Kanda

Verse 30.13

किमार्य कामस्य वशंगतेन किमात्मपौरुष्यपराभवेन। अयं ह्विया संह्वियते समाधिः किमत्र योगेन निवर्तते न॥

kimārya kāmasya vaśaṃgatena kimātmapauruṣyaparābhavena| ayaṃ hviyā saṃhviyate samādhiḥ kimatra yogena nivartate na||

English Meaning

O worshipful one, what have you perpetrated by placing yourself under the control of passions and defeating your manliness? Your deep and devout meditation has been purloined by your grief; and it is by religious contemplation that your grief shall be terminated now.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)