Example sentences:

Ramayana: When Rama conquered Lanka, he didn’t take away its autonomy, but enthroned Vibhishana as its sovereign ruler.  

Mahabharata: When Karna accepted the kingdom of Anga as a gift from Duryodhana, little did he know that in exchange he would end up losing his autonomy as a man of principles. 

Bhagavad-gita: The Gita recognizes and respects human autonomy when it concludes by a call to deliberate its message and to thereafter decide one’s course of action.