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and is not beneficial to me though it
looks full of benefit.
सत्यमेवानृशंसं च राजवृत्तं सनातनम् ।
तस्मात् सत्यात्मकं राज्यं सत्ये लोकः प्रतिष्ठितः ॥
The principle of a king, of the nature
of Pity, has through eternity been Truth.
Therefore it is that sovereignty is Truth
itself; and the world too is founded on
Truth.
सोऽहं पितुर्नियो
सत्यप्रतिश्रवस्सत्यं सत्येन समयीकृतः ॥
Why then shall I, knowing these
things, not fulfil my father's command ?
He was truthful and righteous. For truth's
sake, I have been enjoined to fulfil the
truth.
क्रुद्धमाज्ञाय रामं तु वसिष्ठः प्रत्युवाच ह ॥
Knowing Rama to have been enraged,
Vasishtha replied him thus:
जाबालिरपि जानीते लोकस्यास्य गतागतिम् ।
निवर्तयितुकामस्तु त्वामेतद्वाक्यमुक्तवान् ॥
"Jabali also knows where beings go to
from this world and how they return