Powerful Lines From Ashura the Story of the Vanquished

Vibhishana as someone, who constantly researched the right way to live that he had forgotten how to live, utterly useless jargon and numbed jumbo.

2.   “Ravana I believe the world will be yours, unless you forget the ten lessons I have just mentioned. I believe Brahma has done enough for you to shed the nine thinking from you. Only the most important one, the mind remains."
3.   “No mendicant living in the forest ever conceived a great city, no sage has determined to build temples, no Brahmin desired to build great ship for commerce and trade. My aim is neither to become God or attain Mukti.”
4.   “He had prepared a mud pot and emptied the contents into the boiling rice.”
5.    “I know all the Vedas of the Devas, and I have studied Deva and Ashura history. I have also studied engineering and architecture under my father. I write poetry and I paint.”
6.    “Too perfect to have a soul. There was no passion.”
7.    “There was no love, no romantic courtship, no whispers under the moon, no stolen kisses, in fact it was clinical.”
8.    “Life was simple and sweet. But perhaps it was not that simple. He could have an unfaithful wife, a drunkard for a son, and even a sick father to take care of.
9.   “Mother you are treating me like a child. I don’t need any advice from idiots who have managed to lose their own kingdoms, honors, wealth and everything they inherited to devas.”
10.   “Where were these mobs when we were starving? Obese uncles and aunts sailed into my bedroom just to see how our boy Ravana had grown up.
11. “I am leaving. Your father, brother, sister and I will never again step into your home. We do not want to see u again. And when we die, do not come to see our dead bodies. Power has made you a demon.
12.   “I felt like I was leaving my own daughter there and prayed to Shiva to keep her happy. I prayed she would grow into a lovely princess and marry some Good Deva princess who would keep her happy forever.”
13.   “He peered into the ditch and ordered one of his minions to fetch a plough, which he carefully used to life the baby out of the ditch and named the baby the one got with plough Sita, the one got with plough.”
14.   “My daughter’s words kept ringing in my ears, “All that you have built and your people will turn to ashes.” “I wish you death, a painful prolonged one.”
15.   “Did I fail as a King? How did my Empire Collapse?”
16.   “His wife said “You are fighting this war for your own selfish reason. You denied her motherly love, fatherly affection. You were afraid of the prediction.”
17.   “I saw my son lying there peacefully on the sandal wood pyre the King had arranged for himself.”
18.   “Enough I trust my wife.