Example Sentences:

Ramayana:  The tension between the king’s co-wives had existed for decades in the Ayodhya royal family as a malaise, but it suddenly exploded into malevolence that sent Rama to the forest and Dasharatha to the next world.

Mahabharata:  Vidura stressed to Dhritarashtra that what afflicted him was not any bodily disease but the malaise of bodily attachment.

Bhagavad-gita:  Underlying the many social, cultural, personal and interpersonal problems that face us is the malaise of misidentifying ourselves with our physical body.