Pop Quiz From the Mahabarata

1. What is quicker than the wind?

2. What can cover the earth?

3. Who are more numerous, the living or the dead?

4. Give me an example of space.

5. An example of grief.

6. Of poison.

7. An example of defeat.

8. Which came first, day or night?

9. What is the cause of the world?

10. What is your opposite?

11. What is madness?

12. Why do men revolt?

13. What, for each of us, is inevitable?

14. What is the greatest wonder?
    

Answers:

1. Thought

2. Darkness

3. The living, because the dead are no longer

4. My two hands [held together] as one

5. Ignorance

6. Desire

7. Victory

8. Day, but it was only a day ahead

9. Love

10. Myself

11. A forgoten way

12. To find beauty, either in life or in death

13. Happiness

14. Each day, death strikes and we live as though we are immortal.