Chapter 83 — Yuddha Kanda, Sarga 83

Valmiki Ramayana — Yuddha Kanda

Verse 83.15

यथैव स्थावरं व्यक्तं जङ्गमं च तथाविधम्। नायमर्थस्तथा युक्तस्त्वद्विधो न विपद्यते॥

yathaiva sthāvaraṃ vyaktaṃ jaṅgamaṃ ca tathāvidham| nāyamarthastathā yuktastvadvidho na vipadyate||

English Meaning

Inasmuch as the immobile (albeit devoid of any regard for virtue) are nevertheless happy and as the mobile also are so, this virtue cannot lead to happiness. (If it were so), one like you would have not been placed in peril.

— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)