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Mahapuraana, Uttara Puraana
What is the point of desiring forbidden objects when you are in a state of renunciation? Know that this Vidyaadhari Lakshmi is dear to your virtues. If you do not return Sita, she will abandon you today, considering you to be devoid of virtues. Why do you make yourself the leader of the inactive by desiring another woman? You are becoming unfavorable to punya by accumulating sin through this wicked tendency. Without favorable destiny, how can you attain wealth? Stealing another woman is a sin that is difficult to overcome among all sins.
What is the point of saying more? This sin will take you to the seventh hell. Or let it be, this sin will cause suffering in the future, but women who are repositories of virtue are capable of destroying the lineage of those who are angry with them by cursing them in this very life. You had vowed that you would not desire a woman who did not desire you. Why are you destroying this vow, which is like a ship to cross the ocean of existence? Noble men should buy fame with their lives, but you are so ignorant that you are buying sin and disgrace that will last for another kalpa by giving up your life and fame. Therefore, shame on you. Do you not know whose daughter Sita is? It is true that for those whose minds are intoxicated by lust, even known things are like unknown things. Do you not know that there is desire for these objects of the senses until they are obtained, satisfaction when they are obtained, and boredom when they are enjoyed? Therefore, do not have vain love for another woman who is unworthy, orphaned, a cause of destruction, and an accumulator of sin and suffering. You should also remember what kind of order was given by those who know the future, those who know the signs.
Consider the result of the arising of the wheel. Those who know the Puranas call Rama the eighth Balabhadra and Lakshmana the ninth Narayana. O wise one! Consider this too. There is no fault in handing her over to Rama, just as there is fault in not handing her over.
Therefore, considering all these things, hand over Sita to Rama. This is the means of increasing Lakshmi and wealth, and it is Dharma and virtue.