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सीताया वनगमननिश्चयः · Sita’s Resolve to Accompany Rama to the Forest
भक्तां पतिव्रतां दीनां मां समां सुखदुःखयोः ।
नेतुमर्हसि काकुत्स्थ समान सुखदुःखिनीम् ॥२०॥
bhaktāṃ pativratāṃ dīnāṃ māṃ samāṃ sukhaduḥkhayoḥ |
netum arhasi kākutstha samāna-sukhaduḥkhinīm ||20||
Wahai Kākutstha, bawalah aku—yang berbakti, setia dalam dharma isteri, dan sedang berdukacita—aku yang tetap seia sekata dalam suka dan duka, turut menanggung sejahtera dan sengsara bersamamu.
O Rama, I am faithful and devoted to you. I have equal disposition to happiness and sorrow. I equally share your prosperity and adversity. Therefore, you should take your wife (to the forest). In this time of distress.
Shared dharma in marriage: true partnership is measured by equal participation in hardship and duty, not only in comfort.
Sītā intensifies her plea, presenting herself as emotionally and ethically prepared to share exile with Rāma.
Loyalty and equanimity (sama-bhāva): Sītā claims steadiness across pleasure and pain as her defining virtue.
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