Valmiki Ramayana 2.75.50: Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 75, Shloka 50
अयोध्याकाण्डे पञ्चसप्ततितमः सर्गः
Sarga 75: Bharata and Kausalya · Reproach, Oaths, and Reconciliation
आशामाशंसमानानां दीनानामूर्ध्वचक्षुषाम् ।
अर्थिनां वितथां कुर्याद्यस्यार्योऽनुमते गतः ॥५०॥
āśām āśaṃsamānānāṃ dīnānām ūrdhva-cakṣuṣām |
arthināṃ vitathāṃ kuryād yasya āryo 'numate gataḥ ||50||
जिस आदमी ने हाँ करी थी कि मेरा भाई वनवास जाए, उसका पाप यह है। वो लोगों को उम्मीन दिलाता है, वो लोग ऊपर देख के उम्मीन लगाए हैं। फिर वो उनकी उम्मीन तोड़ देता है।
May the one who counselled the exile of my esteemed brother acquire the sin in the same way a person disappoints who miserable mendicants seeking alms and looking up to him for help!
FAQs
To deny help to the helpless—especially those who approach with hope—is adharma; the verse equates causing such disappointment with grave moral fault, and applies that moral lens to the injustice of approving Rama’s exile.
Bharata speaks before Kausalya, lamenting Rama’s exile and uttering a series of condemnations against whoever approved or engineered that exile.
Bharata’s commitment to dharma and compassion: he measures wrongdoing by its harm to the vulnerable and by betrayal of righteous order.
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