Ramayana — Yuddha Kanda, Sarga 83, Shloka 15
त्र्यशीतितमः सर्गः (Sarga 83)
Hanumān Reports Sītā’s ‘Slaying’; Rāma Collapses; Lakṣmaṇa’s Counter-Discourse on Dharma and Artha
भूतानांस्थावाराणां च जङ्गमानां च दर्शनम् ।यथास्ति न तथाधर्मस्तेननास्तीतिमेमतिः ।।6.83.15।।
bhūtānāṃ sthāvarāṇāṃ ca jaṅgamānāṃ ca darśanam |
yathāsti na tathā dharmas tena nāstīti me matiḥ ||6.83.15||
我们看见一切众生——无论静止或行走——各自如其所是而得乐；因此我认为，达摩并非决定此乐的根因。
"Just as inanimate beings which are seen happy and animate are also seen in the same manner, in which case that righteousness alone prospers is not there (for a person like you would not suffer). Knowing this you should not suffer."
FAQs
The verse raises a challenge to dharma: it argues from worldly observation that happiness appears irrespective of moral order, questioning dharma as a causal principle.
Amid the war, a speaker advances a materialist/skeptical argument to unsettle confidence in moral causality (dharma → reward).
Not a virtue but an intellectual posture: skepticism that tests the protagonists’ commitment to dharma and satya under pressure.