भरणादानसंरम्भविभ्रमश्रमभूमिषु । शक्तता दृश्यते राम न दैवस्यौषधेरिव ॥ २५ ॥
bharaṇādānasaṁrambhavibhramaśramabhūmiṣu | śaktatā dṛśyatē rāma na daivasyauṣadhēriva || 25 ||
Translation
In providing, in seizing, in anger, in pleasure and in hard toil, Rāma, strength is seen, as a medicine's is seen, and fate's is not.
Word by word
- bharaṇa
- in providing
- ādāna
- in seizing
- saṁrambha
- in anger
- vibhrama
- in pleasure
- śrama
- in hard toil
- bhūmiṣu
- in the fields of
- śaktatā
- strength
- dṛśyatē
- is seen
- rāma
- Rāma
- na
- not
- daivasya
- fate's
- auṣadhēr
- (auṣadheḥ) a medicine's
- iva
- as
Meaning
A list of the ordinary fields (bhūmi) of human action. The commentary spells them out: the keeping of one's own people, the seizing of another's realm, punishing another in anger, enjoyment and pleasure, and such labours as curing disease. In each, power is plainly present, as it is in a medicine, which is either effective or not, and can be tried. That simile is well chosen. We believe in a medicine because something happens when it is taken. Apply that same test to fate, and there is nothing to report. So on this sarga's reckoning, belief should follow results, and the results are all on one side.