Sundar Kaanda
155 - Vibhisana offers advice to Ravana and meets with an affront at the latter's hands
Chaupais
Description
Ravana had a very old and sagacious minister named Malyavan. He felt much gratified to hear Vibhisana's words. "Your younger brother, dear son, is the very ornament of wisdom. Therefore, take to heart what Vibhisana says." "Both these fools glorify the enemy ! Is there no one here who will remove them out of my sight ?" Malyavan thereupon returned to his residence, while Vibhisana began again with joined palms: "Wisdom and unwisdom dwell in the heart of all: so declare the Puranas and Vedas, my lord. Where there is wisdom, prosperity of every kind reigns; and where there is unwisdom misfortune is the inevitable end. Perversity has obviously taken possession of your heart; that is why you account your friends as foes and your enemies as friends. And that is why you are so very fond of Sita, who is the very night of destruction* for the demon race."