# Ravana’s Devotion and Duryodhana’s Accusations Against Krishna - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2119511670850724269 - Source account: [@kevsk28](https://x.com/kevsk28) - Source language: Tamil - Target language: English - Duration: 2:59 - Published: 2026-11-08 - Machine translated. Check the original before quoting. - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna - Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/ta/%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%A3%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B7%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A3%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%80%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%A9-%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AF%8B%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B1%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B1%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D.md ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna) That doesn't happen in the Ramayana or the Mahabharata. [0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=3) Rama's flaws come out, too. Krishna's flaws come out, too. [0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=9) Look at how eloquent a villain can be. Ravana. [0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=14) Rama sees him on the battlefield. He is shaken. [0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=18) What a man! What radiance! It's as if the sun itself has come down. [0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=25) He must have been so intelligent... ...to have such a radiant appearance. [0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=30) Rama is stunned, thinking, "Good heavens!" [0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=33) Rama is stunned when he sees Ravana. Ravana is that captivating. [0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=37) And what a man Ravana was. A great devotee of Shiva. [0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=41) There was no devotee of Shiva who could surpass him. [0:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=43) Everyone else—now, take yourselves, for example. [0:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=45) Suppose you perform puja at home. Sorry, forgive me. You're atheists. [0:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=50) You don't perform puja at all. You won't worship idols. [0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=53) You'll garland and worship statues and tombs. [0:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=55) That way, you won't worship idols. I'm speaking generally. [1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=60) There's a devotee. He performs worship at home. [1:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=63) But Ravana wasn't like that. He'd carry a Shiva lingam in his hand. [1:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=67) He'd keep a little golden box. He'd carry it in his hand. [1:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=71) Wherever he saw beautiful flowers and pure water, he would sit down. [1:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=75) He would perform Shiva worship. He is revered as a devotee of Shiva of that kind. [1:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=79) There's no scripture or Veda that he didn't know. [1:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=83) All of these are praised as Ravana's qualities. [1:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=87) Would anyone describe a villain like that? [1:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=90) All right, take the Mahabharata. At Krishna, Duryodhana curses him, nearly spitting on him. [1:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=96) At the end of the war, before that, Shishupala curses him. [1:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=101) All of that is in it. There are huge arguments. [1:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=104) Duryodhana looks at Krishna and says, at the end of the war, Was your victory really a victory? [1:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=111) Was this a triumph? You won by cheating at every turn. [1:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=116) It was all trickery. Who did you fight fair and square? [2:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=120) Drona? Bhishma? Jayadratha? Who did you fight fair and square? [2:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=125) You did it all through tricks, didn’t you? [2:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=127) And in the end, how did Bhima hit me? On the thigh? [2:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=131) In a mace fight, hitting the thigh is foul play. [2:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=133) Hitting below the waist. He hit me like that, and it was done at your signal. [2:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=137) Have you no shame at all? That’s what he asks. [2:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=142) It would’ve been fine if he’d stopped there. [2:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=144) Vyasa writes, Then the gods showered flowers upon Duryodhana. [2:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=151) Divine instruments resounded. Fragrance wafted everywhere. [2:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=157) Lord Krishna stood ashamed, his head bowed. [2:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=162) What do you say to that? Why did he write it like that? [2:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=165) Krishna himself is an incarnation in it. [2:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=168) This is what it says about him. The reason it comes across this way is they just state the facts and move on. [2:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=173) Whether this character is insulting, or belittling this character here, they don't look at any of that. [2:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/UPBkSClGBmH0/en/ravana-s-devotion-and-duryodhana-s-accusations-against-krishna?t=177) Facts, facts, facts.