In Ramayana one of the characters who suffered most was urmila.
but her contribution was so GREAT that has made her to be placed among the great. Her sacrificed is worth mentioning. When laksman was leaving her he asked her to promise him not to let even a drop of tear out of her eye. And she promise to do so and she did. U know in such a distress and agony how difficult it is for a person to bury all the sorrow in heart and not to let it out so that it may reduce for such a long time. During period of vanvas she so much served mata kawsalya that she hardly felt the absence of her daughter in law sita
Her contribution in great war also cant be ignored. Even lord Ram praises her saying it is because of her he has won the victory over Ravana. The story says that ones during war in lanka a sudden realization came in lakhan. He felt that during vanvas all the princess was with their husband but only urmilla was alone. It was her who in spite of being in palace was suffering a lot. Even the future will praise all because of each contribution and they might forget urmilla. Antaryami Ram seeing laksman worried explained him the great contribution of urmila. He explained the suffering of urmilla for her husband was in actual a tapsya which is needed to overcome the strength of kavach of satitwa being given to meghnath by his wife sulochna. while to kill meghnath a person must follow the tap of bramchharya for at least 14 years. So her being away from lakhan is must and was desided in heven. If this was not happen then meghnath would never been killed and victory over Ravana was never possible without death of indrajeet. Ram praised her to be one of the greatest contributor in the victory of that dharma yuddha. This soothed laksman heart. So we must never forget the contribution and sacrifice of urmilla.
Ganesh Kartikeya
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