Example Sentences:

Ramayana:  With his hands folded and holding a mace, Hanuman is a paradigm for how devotion integrates submission and heroism.

Mahabharata:  Draupadi’s raising her arms to call out to Krishna while being disrobed — that is considered by the bhakti tradition to be the paradigm for surrender.

Bhagavad-gita:  Krishna’s becoming the charioteer of Arjuna is a paradigm for how devotion inverts hierarchies: instead of the devotee serving God, God is serving the devotee.