Shloka 5.28.4
सीताविलापः (Sita’s Lament and Resolve under Threat)
सुखाद्विहीनं बहुदुःखपूर्णमिदं तु नूनं हृदयं स्थिरं मे।विशीर्यते यन्न सहस्रधाऽद्य वज्राहतं शृङ्गमिवाचलस्य।।5.28.4।।
sukhādvihīnaṃ bahuduḥkhapūrṇam idaṃ tu nūnaṃ hṛdayaṃ sthiraṃ me |
viśīryate yan na sahasradhā ’dya vajrāhataṃ śṛṅgam ivācalasya ||5.28.4||
Deprived of happiness and filled with many sorrows, my heart is surely made of something firm—for even today it does not shatter into a thousand pieces, like a mountain-peak struck by a thunderbolt.
"Even though I am devoid of joy, and living in deep agony, my heart bursts not into a thousand pieces like the summit of a mountain hit by thunderbolt (lightning).
Sita speaks truthfully about her inner condition—joyless and overwhelmed by sorrow—without exaggeration or concealment, showing the Ramayana’s emphasis on honest self-assessment even in suffering.
Her firmness indicates steadfast adherence to dharma—enduring adversity without moral collapse—suggesting that inner restraint and patience are part of righteous conduct even when circumstances are unjust.