मह्यं च भगवन् ब्रूहि कथं संसारसंकटे । रामो व्यवहृतो ह्यस्मिन् भरतश्च महामनाः ॥ २० ॥
mahyaṁ ca bhagavan brūhi kathaṁ saṁsārasaṁkaṭē | rāmō vyavahṛtō hyasmin bharataśca mahāmanāḥ || 20 ||
Translation
"And tell me too, revered one: how did Rāma conduct himself in these straits of worldly life, and the great-souled Bharata,
Word by word
- mahyaṁ
- to me
- ca
- and (twice)
- bhagavan
- revered one
- brūhi
- tell
- kathaṁ
- how
- saṁsāra
- worldly life
- saṁkaṭē
- in the straits of
- rāmaḥ
- Rāma
- vyavahṛtaḥ
- conducted himself
- hi
- indeed
- asmin
- in these
- bharataḥ
- Bharata
- mahāmanāḥ
- great-souled
Meaning
Bharadvāja now asks for himself. He does not ask how Rāma escaped the world but how he lived in it: the work's concern is freedom in the midst of life.