Example Sentences: Ramayana:  After Maricha had been trounced twice of Rama, he resolved to never do anything that would anger Rama. Mahabharata:  After Duryodhana was trounced by the Gandhavas, he felt so humiliated that he decided to end his life by fasting to death. Bhagavad-gita:  If we don’t take shelter of Krishna, we will be

Example Sentences: Ramayana:  Rama found that grappling with the demon of separation from Sita was far more difficult than the strongest of the demons he had fought with. Mahabharata:  During the exile, Yudhisthira and Draupadi had a discussion on morality, wherein they grappled with the reality of suffering and its seeming arbitrariness and unfairness. Bhagavad-gita: 

Example Sentences: Ramayana:  Rama’s plans to search for Sita were stymied by the event of the rainy season with its unusually heavy rains.  Mahabharata:  Knowing that his efforts to gain a good archery education would be stymied by his low birth, Karna told Parshurama that he was born in a brahmana family. Bhagavad-gita:  Our efforts

Example Sentences: Ramayana:  Because Rama and his army peregrinated to the southern coast of India, it took them much longer to reach there than it had taken for Ravana to go beyond the southern most point of India to Lanka because Ravana had travelled by the airways using his mystical powers. Mahabharata:  When the Pandavas

Example Sentences: Ramayana:  Though Ravana’s powers were formidable, he was circumscribed by his vulnerability to humans. Mahabharata:  During the battle between Bhishma and Arjuna, Arjuna let himself be circumscribed by his affection for Bhishma but Bhishma didn’t let himself be circumscribed by his affection for Arjuna. Bhagavad-gita:  We all are circumscribed by our attachments –

Example Sentences: Ramayana:  Once Dasharatha got the inspiration to pass the throne onto Rama, he didn’t shilly-shally but immediately began the process for succession. Mahabharata:  After Pandu’s untimely demise, the sages in the Himalayas urged Kunti not to shilly-shally but to promptly return to the kingdom of Hastinapura. Bhagavad-gita:  At the start of the Kurukshetra

Example Sentences: Ramayana:  Although age hadn’t etiolated Jatayu, it had slowed his reflexes, and that proved fatal for him in his fight with Ravana. Mahabharata:  During the Kurukshetra war in which Dhritarashtra lost all his hundred sons, those eighteen days etiolated him more than the preceding eighteen years. Bhagavad-gita:  Knowledge means to contemplate the distresses

Example Sentences: Ramayana:  Ravana’s lust for Sita embroiled all the demons in an unnecessary war with Rama and send them to a hapless death.  Mahabharata:  Duryodhana’s envy for the Pandavas embroiled the Kuru dynasty in a series of palace intrigues that culminated in a horrendous fratricidal war. Bhagavad-gita:  By impelling us to speak without thinking,

Example Sentences: Ramayana:  Though Kaikeyi’s demands caused Dasharatha more pain than he could bear, still he knew that he couldn’t renege on granting the boons he had promised her. Mahabharata:  Through their letter, the Pandavas conveyed that the Kauravas had reneged on their promise to return the Pandava kingdom after the thirteen-year exile. Bhagavatam:  As

Example Sentences: Ramayana:  Not wanting the citizens of Ayodhya to blather on about the events surrounding his exile, Rama announced to them that he was happily going to the forest to honor his father’s word. Mahabharata:  As the delighted villagers blathered on about who might have killed the mighty demon Baka, the Pandavas departed discreetly,