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 2173
Sanskrit Original
माल्यवंत अति सचिव सयाना। तासु बचन सुनि अति सुख माना।। तात अनुज तव नीति बिभूषन। सो उर धरहु जो कहत बिभीषन।। रिपु उतकरष कहत सठ दोऊ। दूरि न करहु इहाँ हइ कोऊ।। माल्यवंत गृह गयउ बहोरी। कहइ बिभीषनु पुनि कर जोरी।। सुमति कुमति सब कें उर रहहीं। नाथ पुरान निगम अस कहहीं।। जहाँ सुमति तहँ संपति नाना। जहाँ कुमति तहँ बिपति निदाना।। तव उर कुमति बसी बिपरीता। हित अनहित मानहु रिपु प्रीता।। कालराति निसिचर कुल केरी। तेहि सीता पर प्रीति घनेरी।।
mālyavaṃta ati saciva sayānā. tāsu bacana suni ati sukha mānā tāta anuja tava nīti bibhūṣana. sō ura dharahu jō kahata bibhīṣana ripu utakaraṣa kahata saṭha dōū. dūri na karahu ihāom hai kōū mālyavaṃta gṛha gayau bahōrī. kahai bibhīṣanu puni kara jōrī sumati kumati saba kēṃ ura rahahīṃ. nātha purāna nigama asa kahahīṃ jahāom sumati tahaom saṃpati nānā. jahāom kumati tahaom bipati nidānā tava ura kumati basī biparītā. hita anahita mānahu ripu prītā kālarāti nisicara kula kērī. tēhi sītā para prīti ghanērī
Ravana had a very old and sagacious minister named Malyavan. He felt much gratified to hear Vibhisana's words. "Your younger brother, dear son, is the very ornament of wisdom. Therefore, take to heart what Vibhisana says." "Both these fools glorify the enemy ! Is there no one here who will remove them out of my sight ?" Malyavan thereupon returned to his residence, while Vibhisana began again with joined palms: "Wisdom and unwisdom dwell in the heart of all: so declare the Puranas and Vedas, my lord. Where there is wisdom, prosperity of every kind reigns; and where there is unwisdom misfortune is the inevitable end. Perversity has obviously taken possession of your heart; that is why you account your friends as foes and your enemies as friends. And that is why you are so very fond of Sita, who is the very night of destruction* for the demon race."