Example Sentences: Ramayana: Angada’s temerity in openly challenging any of Ravana’s generals to budge his leg was astonishing. Mahabharata: Abhimanyu’s temerity in single-handedly repelling all the Kaurava generals, evoked admiration in Drona and fury in Duryodhana. Bhagavad-gita: If we want to fight against the forces of illusion that bind us to material existence, we need
Example Sentences: Ramayana: Before the war, whenever Ravana handicapped Rama’s army, he dismissed it as a mere bunch of monkeys. Mahabharata: While forming the chakravyuha and handicapping the Pandava warriors who could break it, the Kauravas hadn’t considered Abhimanyu a major threat. Bhagavad-gita: In the first ten verses of the first chapter of the Gita,
Example Sentences: Ramayana: Manthara milked the absence of Bharata at Rama’s upcoming coronation to advance her theory that a conspiracy was afoot to deprive Kaikeyi and Bharata of their rights. Mahabharata: The followers of Duryodhana milked his act of supporting Karna during the martial exhibition to portray the prince as a champion of the lower
Example Sentences: Ramayana: Not wanting to be sidetracked into a fight with Simhika, Hanuman quickly shrank in size, entered into the demoness’s mouth and came out, thereby honoring the blessing that Brahma had given her. Mahabharata: While charging up the Himalayan mountains in search of the thousand petalled lotus, Bhima got sidetracked by an aged
Example Sentences: Ramayana: Ravana’s odious mentality was seen in his scheme to gratify his lust by impersonating a renounced sage who is meant to be free from lust. Mahabharata: When Duryodhana fell in the palace of illusion and Draupadi laughed, he considered that innocent and circumstantial laughter to be an odious and unforgivable insult. Bhagavad-gita:
Example sentences: Ramayana: Rama explained to the fallen Vali that the bottom line was that he had exiled Sugriva without giving him any chance to defend himself and had cohabited with his younger brother’s wife, which was an offense akin to adultery. Mahabharata: Duryodhana dismissed warnings about Krishna’s divinity; the bottom line, he felt, was
Example sentences: Ramayana: When Narada began to speak, Ravana heard attentively because he knew that Narada was not given to moralizing. Mahabharata: When Yudhisthira spoke moral instructions to Draupadi in the forest, she knew that he was not moralizing; he was simply helping both of them to discern the best possible response to the adversity
Example sentences: Ramayana: Maricha knew how powerful Rama was and how dangerous Ravana’s scheme to abduct Rama’s wife would be; so, he refused to mollycoddle Ravana. Mahabharata: If Dhritarashtra hadn’t mollycoddled Duryodhana in his childhood, maybe Duryodhana wouldn’t have become so arrogant later. Bhagavad-gita: If we are serious about doing justice to our potentials, we
Example sentences: Ramayana: Vishwamitra reported that the demons were becoming implacable; the more people retreated from the territory of the demons, the more the demons expanded their territory, devouring humans and destroying human habitats. Mahabharata: Duryodhana’s implacable enmity toward the Pandavas arose from his own envy and insecurity, not from anything the Pandavas had done.
Example sentences: Ramayana: If Rama’s example of accepting Shabari’s berries had been not just appreciated but also applied, India could have cured itself from centuries of regressive discrimination caused by the birth-based caste system. Mahabharata: Madri willingly entered into the funeral pyre with Pandu, while Kunti chose not to — this fact indicates that sati