Human Resilience in Great Indian Epic Mahabharata: A Study of Kavita Kane’s Karna’s Wife: The Outcast’s Queen

Exploring Human Resilience in the Great Indian Epic Mahabharata

Abstract

Indian epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata are enriched with philosophical and psychological teachings. These epics teach us to be optimistic and positive in all situations. The great Indian epic Mahabharata suggests importance of human resilience in our lives. The epic is a web of planned accidents and fated coincident, and suggests the way to win and makes human aware with his capabilities to cope up with the fatal circumstances. It teaches us to recognize our capabilities and capacities, and inspires us to have success over failure. Mahabharata is an ancient Hindu epic providing profound lessons that can be applied at the times of crises in modern times also. The aim of this paper is to discuss the various resilient characters of Mahabharata.