When the Milk Ocean (Ksheera Saagar) was churned by the Asuras and Devas many divinely things like Kaamadhenu, Karpakaviruksha, Mother Lakshmi, Aalakala and Amrith came out. Mother Lakshmi had in her hands two flowers and a conch. These were born along with Mother LAKSHMI during Thretha Yuga as SEETHA, URMILA, MANDAVI and SRUTHAKEERTHY as Rajarishi King Janaka's daughters. Lakshmana married Urmila, Bharatha married Mandavi and Satrugna got married to Sruthakeerthy.
Most of us know about Sri.Ram and Seetha's part in Ramayanam but how many of us know about Urmila? In fact Seetha has learned a lot from Urmila regarding conduct of married women and the other virathams (fasting) one should adopt to protect their husbands and family. These learning's from her sister Urmila helped Seetha during her days at Srilanka to tide over her difficulties. Nevertheless to forget Urmila had a greater amount of separation from her husband compared to Seetha.
We have read that Sri Rama completed his Rama Avatar by going into the river Sarayu along with his brothers Bharatha and Satrugna. This was of course after Mother Seetha went into earth, handing over Kucha and Lava to Rama and Sri Rama named them the rulers. How many of us are aware of what happened to Lakshamana? Sri.Vaathyar has answers for this from Irudigal Ramayana. Let's get some answers.
Urmila the great soul could foresee things due to her pathivritha virtue and penance and other regular charities, poojas and japas. One day Urmila by her divine powers conveyed Lakshmana that he is going to be cursed by his own brother, SriRam and he should be prepared to face this situation. This she said even before Rama went to forest for 14 years. But years rolled by and Sri.Rama killed Ravana and was back to the kingdom Ayodhya and the Pattaabhishekam or Rama was made the king of Ayodhya. Until now the curse that Urmila cautioned Lakshmana never happened.
Once Rama wanted to be left alone for a while and requested Lakshmana to guard his room and not to allow anyone to see him at any cost. None other than the great sage Dhurvasa came at that time to see Sri Rama. This sage is very famous for his anger and curses as we all know. But he is also the soul who was instrumental in the birth of pancha Pandavas as he granted a boon to Kunty Devi. She was given the boon by this sage pleased by her guru seva during her younger years. By uttering the chants taught by Dhurvasa she gave birth to Karna through Surya Dev. This sage has seen Thretha Yuga when Rama ruled and Dwapara Yuga during Mahabharata.
Once during his visit to Pancha Paandava in the forest he was accompanied by his disciples or the sishya. He is also famous for his count of disciples; they were about 10 thousands of them now with him. On the way they had to cross a small river. One of the disciples told that "Guru your dhothy should not get wet while crossing this river" and so saying wanted to serve his Guru. Pleased by his Bhakthi Sage Durvasa immediately blessed this disciple to become a Ghandarva. One of the other disciples made a small fan, made out of palm leaves and started to fan the Guru. When Durvasa saw that the fan was made out of Palm leaves he said "these leaves are created for writing the script over it and you have misused it", so saying he cursed him to become a white Pig. Such is the anger level of Durvasa Maharishi.
Lakshmana who was aware of Sage Durvasa prostrated before him. He humbly told Durvasa that Rama wanted to be alone now and none is allowed to meet him at the time. Dhurvasa immediately got angry and said he would curse Lakshmana if he stopped him from meeting Sri.Raama. Lakshmana then allowed him to meet Sri Rama. Well after the meeting Rama asked Lakshmana why he allowed Durvasa which was against his instructions to him. To this Lakshmana replied if he had stopped Durvasa the sage would have cursed him and allowing him would endup getting cursed by his brother. He preferred getting cursed by his brother better. He requested Rama to curse him and Rama cursed him to become a tree. Urmila worshipped this tree and applied Kumkum and sandal paste on this tree and poured milk through a hole in the tree.
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