Valmiki Ramayana 2.24.5: Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 24, Shloka 5
कौशल्यारामसंवादः · Kausalya
Rama Dialogue on Exile-Dharma
नूनं तु बलवान् लोके कृतान्तस्सर्वमादिशन् ।
लोके रामाभिरामस्त्वं वनं यत्र गमिष्यसि ॥५॥
nūnaṃ tu balavān loke kṛtāntaḥ sarvam ādiśan |
loke rāmābhirāmas tvaṃ vanaṃ yatra gamiṣyasi ||5||
Wahrlich, das Schicksal ist mächtig in der Welt und ordnet alles—denn selbst du, Rāma, Wonne der Welt, wirst in den Wald gesandt.
O Rama! if you, being the delight of the world, are (ordered) to go to the forest, ithas to be said certainly that destiny which rules everything is all-powerful.
FAQs
It points to the tension between dharma and suffering: even the righteous may endure hardship. The verse frames exile not as moral failure but as a turn of destiny within the larger moral universe.
Kausalyā, overwhelmed, interprets Rāma’s exile as evidence of fate’s overwhelming force.
Rāma as ‘lokābhirāma’—one who brings joy and order to society—making his removal from Ayodhyā feel cosmically disruptive.
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