Ram -Sita and Vedavati Story

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Posted: 16 years ago

I found this on the internet and thought it was pertinant to this forum.....Let me what you think about this story..Very Interesting one!..I don't know if it is true....if anyone has more information about this, please feel free to share...

In olden times, Lakshmi, in the form of Vedavati, was staying in an ashram in the forests. At that time, Ravana, the lord of Lanka tried to tempt her. In anger, Vedavati cursed him saying that she would bring about his death. To show how true her words were, Vedavati walked into the fire, but Agni, the Fire God rescued her. He took Vedavati to his house and entrusted her to his wife's care. When Ravana was about to carry away Sita from Panchavati, in the absence of Rama and Lakshmana, Agni appeared and offered Vedavati to Ravana as the real Sita who was kept with him by Rama to evade Ravana. Ravana was tricked into thinking that Vedavati was the real Sita.

Ravana took Vedavati to Lanka thinking she was the real Sita, while Agni took Sita to his house and asked his wife Swahadevi to look after her. After the destruction of Ravana, Vedavati entered the fire when rejected by Rama. Then, Agni, offered the real Sita to Rama. Rama then questioned her as to who the other lady by her side was, Sita informed Rama that the lady was Vedavati who endured Ravana's torture for ten months in Lanka for her sake. Sita requested Rama to accept Vedavati also as his spouse. But Rama declined her request saying that he believed in having only one wife during his life time. However, He promised to wed her in her next birth as Padmavati, born as the daughter of Akasa Raja, when Rama himself would take the form of Srinivasa.

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@AsliiGuy

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Posted: 16 years ago

I ahve heard this before,

It was like another Sita going to Ravan's location.

Also I think she prayed to agni dev when Hanuman was burning the city to protect hanuman's tail, and she was also protected when lanka was burning bc of Agni Dev's blessings.

They say if the Real Sita went to Ravan's location then the whole place would have burned because she is maha shakti.

Thanks for posting this, reading this makes my day go better,😊 very interesting..

Jai SitaRam,

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desichica

@desichica

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Posted: 16 years ago

hmmm....interesting!!!!! But u know i always thought that it was Sita's shadow that went with Ravan...b/c in the last Ramayan when Laxman gets upset at his brother Ram for making Sita go thru the Agni Pareeksha....Ram explains to Laxman that due to Ravan's curse that if he ever touches a woman he will burn into ashes...& that if the shadow of Sita went with Ravan, there wud be no harm to him...but they needed a mean to an end to destroy Ravan!!!!!

Obviously Ram knew all of this b4 hand thats y he told Laxman that He knew wut was about to happen with the whole golden deer scenario...so b4 it actually took place he told Sita to go ahead & place her protection under Agni Dev....which is wut happened......

My source is basically from the OLD Ramayan!!!!! & Remember that Vedavati did tell Ravan that b/c he interrrupted her Tapasya & all...She said she wud not curse him b/c she didn't want her Tapasya, which was to have Lord Vishnu as her husband, go to waste but that she will be the reason of Ravan's destruction....& Laxmi ma reincarnated herself as Sita/ Vedavati!!!!!

Hope this makes sense!!!! 😊