Example Sentences: Ramayana:  The collusion between Ravana and Maricha put them both on a collision course with Rama. Mahabharata:  The collusion between the vicious Duryodhana and the devious Shakuni made the Mahabharata war inevitable. Bhagavad-gita:  If there is a collusion between the mind and the intelligence, then we become defenceless against temptations.

Example Sentences: Ramayana:  Hanuman’s childhood pranks were understandable as innocent foibles, but because he also had extraordinary powers, those pranks troubled the sages significantly. Mahabharata:  Yudhisthira’s weakness for gambling was the foible that was exploited by Shakuni to disastrous effect. Bhagavad-gita:  Lust, anger and greed are more than mere foibles; they can impel us to

Example Sentences: Ramayana:  The venom evident in Vali’s eyes shattered Sugriva: his brother not only suspected him of betrayal but had already convicted him. Mahabharata:  The venom in the message that Duryodhana had sent to the Pandavas on the eve of the Kurukshetra war shocked and infuriated all those who heard it. Bhagavad-gita:  For the

Example Sentences: Ramayana:  When the innuendos about Sita’s chastity became widespread rumors, Rama’s spies had no alternative but to report them to him. Mahabharata:  Duryodhana regularly made innuendos about the Pandavas’ unconventional birth, wanting to delegitimize their claim to the kingdom. Bhagavad-gita:  The mind sometimes makes innuendos about the reality and rationality of spirituality and

Example Sentences: Ramayana:  Vibhishana explained to Rama that Indrajit’s beheading the Sita look-alike  was a smokescreen to gain time for doing  a sacrifice that would make him invincible. Mahabharata:  The Pandavas suspected that Dhritarashtra’s request that they go and oversee the festivities at Varnavarta was just a smokescreen to get them away from the centre

Example Sentences: Ramayana:  The latter half of the Ramayana is in some ways a psychodrama that depicts the psychological consequences of Ravana’s lust for Sita. Mahabharata:  The thoughts of Dhritarashtra before the war at Kuruksehtra, which oscillated between desiring the inevitable and dreading the inevitable. would make a revealing psychodrama. Bhagavad-gita:  The mind is the

Example Sentences: Ramayana:  The demons’ animus toward any human being who challenges their power was understandable; they were cannibals who felt that humans were meant to be nothing more than their powerless prey. Mahabharata:  Right from his first meeting with the Pandavas, Duryodhana felt a particular animus toward Bhima.  Bhagavad-gita:  Though the Gita urges Arjuna

Example Sentences: Ramayana:  Although all the demon generals were powerful, Kumbhakarna was a leviathan towering above all of them. Mahabharata:  On seeing the leviathan universal form of Krishna, all those present in the Kuru assembly shrank back in fear. Bhagavad-gita:  The Gita (10.41) indicates that everything leviathan, be it in the natural world or the

Example Sentences: Ramayana:  Hanuman warned Ravana that if he didn’t return Sita to Rama immediately, the backlash would destroy all of Lanka.   Mahabharata:  Although Duryodhana’s actions during the gambling match had been outrageous, the backlash from the Kuru leaders was surprisingly and shockingly muted. Bhagavad-gita:  The casual contemplation on sense objects has a backlash that

Example Sentences: Ramayana:  Hanuman’s burning of Lanka exposed the fallacy of Ravana’s belief that his island kingdom was unassailable.  Mahabharata:  Bhisma highlighted the fallacy in Duryodhana’s belief that the numerical superiority of his forces guaranteed his victory: omnipotent Krishna was on the opposite side. Bhagavad-gita:  The Gita begins by underscoring the fundamental fallacy that defined