Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 99, Shloka 16
चित्रकूटप्राप्तिः
Bharata Reaches Chitrakuta and Beholds Rama
मत्कृते व्यसनं प्राप्तो लोकनाथो महाद्युतिः।सर्वान्कामान्परित्यज्य वने वसति राघवः।।2.99.16।।
mat-kṛte vyasanaṁ prāpto loka-nātho mahā-dyutiḥ |
sarvān kāmān parityajya vane vasati rāghavaḥ ||2.99.16||
મારા કારણે મહાદ્યુતિમાન લોકનાથ વ્યસનમાં પડ્યા છે; સર્વ કામનાઓ ત્યજી રાઘવ વનમાં નિવાસ કરે છે.
Effulgent Rama, the lord of the world, had to renounce all desires and undergo this calamity of living in the forest on my account.
FAQs
The verse underscores dharma as self-sacrifice and truth-bound duty: Rāma accepts forest life, while Bharata accepts moral responsibility for the chain of events.
Bharata laments that Rāma—fit to rule—now lives as a renunciate in the forest, and he attributes the suffering to himself.
Rāma’s renunciation and Bharata’s accountability—together portraying ideal conduct: one bears hardship for dharma, the other refuses to hide from blame.