Sundar Kaanda Vibhisana offers advice to Ravana and meets with an affront at the latter's hands - Chaupais
Ramcharitmanas · Sundar Kaanda Vibhisana offers advice to Ravana and meets with an affront at the latter's hands · Verse Chaupais 2169
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सोइ रावन कहुँ बनि सहाई। अस्तुति करहिं सुनाइ सुनाई।। अवसर जानि बिभीषनु आवा। भ्राता चरन सीसु तेहिं नावा।। पुनि सिरु नाइ बैठ निज आसन। बोला बचन पाइ अनुसासन।। जौ कृपाल पूँछिहु मोहि बाता। मति अनुरुप कहउँ हित ताता।। जो आपन चाहै कल्याना। सुजसु सुमति सुभ गति सुख नाना।। सो परनारि लिलार गोसाईं। तजउ चउथि के चंद कि नाई।। चौदह भुवन एक पति होई। भूतद्रोह तिष्टइ नहिं सोई।। गुन सागर नागर नर जोऊ। अलप लोभ भल कहइ न कोऊ।।
sōi rāvana kahuom bani sahāī. astuti karahiṃ sunāi sunāī avasara jāni bibhīṣanu āvā. bhrātā carana sīsu tēhiṃ nāvā puni siru nāi baiṭha nija āsana. bōlā bacana pāi anusāsana jau kṛpāla pūomchihu mōhi bātā. mati anurupa kahauom hita tātā jō āpana cāhai kalyānā. sujasu sumati subha gati sukha nānā sō paranāri lilāra gōsāīṃ. tajau cauthi kē caṃda ki nāī caudaha bhuvana ēka pati hōī. bhūtadrōha tiṣṭai nahiṃ sōī guna sāgara nāgara nara jōū. alapa lōbha bhala kahai na kōū
It was such a contingency that presented itself before Ravana. They all extolled him only to his face. Perceiving it to be an opportune hour, Vibhisana (Ravana's youngest brother) arrived and bowed his head at his brother's feet. Bowing his head once more he occupied his own seat and, when ordered to speak, addressed him thus: "Since Your gracious Majesty has asked me my opinion I tender it, dear brother, according to my own lights and in your own interest. Let him who seeks after his welfare, good reputation, wisdom, a good destiny after his death and joys of various kinds turn his eyes away from the brow of another's wife even as one should refuse to see the moon on the fourth night (of the bright half) of a lunar month. Even though a man happened to be the sole lord of the fourteen spheres, he would certainly fall if he turned hostile to living beings. No one will speak well of a man who has the slightest avarice even if he were an ocean of virtues and clever too.