rama was born as vishnu was cursed by vrinda

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dear shivbhakts

om namo bhagawate rudraya

 

many people wonder as to why king rama suffered various hardships

like fourteen years of secluded life in jungles (equivalent to life

imprisonment under present Indian law) and separation from wife and

children etc. several astrologers tried to cast king rama's chart

based on the descriptions given in valmiki Ramayana and find out

astrological reasons for his troubles but astrologically his chart is

the best one could imagine.

 

the only reason for the sufferings of king rama or lord rama in human

form (a reincarnation of lord vishnu) is due to the curse received by

lord Vishnu from pativratas (chaste women) for outraging their

modesties by deceit.

 

once upon a time brihaspati (jupiter) and indra (king of devatas)

visited kailasha to meet lord shiva and to test them, shiva appeared

in the form of a digambara and not realizing it, indra tries to kill

him with his thunderbolt due to which lord shiva gets furiated and

releases fire from his third eye. realizing the anger of lord shiva,

jupiter makes indra fall at the feet of shiva and prays to lord shiva

to shower mercy and spare indra after which lord shiva lets the fire

released from his third eye thrown into the salt ocean (lavanambodhi)

and this fire that has fallen into this ocean takes the form of a boy

called jalandhara. since jupiter helped indra get his life back,

lord shiva grants the name of jeeva (enlivener) to jupiter. later

realizing the strength of jalandhara, brahma blesses him to become

the emperor of asuras and asks sukra (venus) to coronate and later

performs jalandhara's marriage with vrinda, the daughter of

kalanemi. seeing the headless rahu, jalandhara finds out the reason

for rahu's headlessness and decides to fight with vishnu. in the

battle, sukra used to bring back the dead asuras to life with his

mritasanjivini vidya and jupiter used to bring back the dead devatas

to life with rarest herbs found only in drona mountain. knowing

this, jalandhara uproots the drona mountain and throws into the

ocean. (drona mountain is now in the almora district of kumaon).

 

jalandhara fights battle with vishnu and make vishnu and his family

live in jalandhara's house and conquers all the three worlds. vishnu

could not win the battle since jalandhara is born out of lord shiva.

then sage narada hatches a plot and tells jalandhara to go and get

parvati who is the most beautiful woman in the world. narada also

tells that once even brahma fell to the beauty of parvati but was

cursed by siva which was a different story. then jalandhara goes to

manasasarovar and find parvati who gets vanished after spotted by

jalandhara and asks vishnu to outrage the modesty of jalandhara's

wife saying that as long as his wife is chaste, due to her power,

jalandha cannot be killed even by shiva. jalandhara becomes busy in

kailasa to get paravati and fight lord shiva.

 

vishnu cast (maya) a bad dream for vrinda, the wife of jalandhara

after which vrinda goes into the forest and find two monsters fleeing

from which she approaches a brahmin who kills these monsters with a

mere sound. then vrinda asks this brahmin to let her know the status

of jalandhara who had gone to fight shiva and this brahmin lets two

monkeys bring the deadbody of jalandhar in front. vrinda falls at

the feet of this brahmin and prays to him to bring back jalandhara to

life and lo, jalandhara (vishnu in disguise) wakes up and embraces

vrinda and have sex only after which she realizes that it was vishnu

and not jalandhara and curses vishnu to take a human shape and then

his wife would be distracted by two rakshasas, the same two monsters

who made vrinda to approach this deceitful brahmin. like this

brahmin, a demon in disguise as a brahmin approaches your wife and

abducts her. like me, you would also search for your wife in

jungles. since you used monkeys to bring a false deadbody of my

husband, you would not find your wife without taking the help of real

monkeys. after giving these curses, the chaste vrinda enters into a

fire and attains salvation.

 

from the above, it is clear that vishnu took a human shape only due

to the curse of vrinda and his search in jungles, deceit by the

rakshasas, his wife taken away by another person, taking the help of

monkeys is all due to the curse of vrinda, a pativrata. these

stories also highlight the power of a chaste woman by signifying that

even if the husband of a chaste woman is bad, he would become

invincible due to the power of his wife.

 

with best wishes and blessings

pandit arjun

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