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Swamin,
 
Pardon me if I am wrong. I think the conclusion on the order of greatness is in
favour of Lakshmana.
 
But I would like to go as per Kamban "AAYIRAM RAMAR NIN KEEZH AAVARO"
for reasons as simple as this.
 
A soul that nayed the offer of kingdom, pleasure of family or the other benefits
and lived like his brother wearing matted hair and all.
 
Dasan/raghavan

TCA Venkatesan <vtca@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear Sri Vishnu,

While it is true that service is as ordained by Him,
it is the svarUpa of the soul, and that the younger
brother has to serve the elder - the fact remains
that Laskhmana refused a direct order from Sri Rama.
In fact, he threatened to committ suicide when he
was told to stay back - forcing Rama to take him
along.

On the other hand, Sri Bharata, who too could have
threatened some dire action and demanded that Rama 
come back or that he too be taken along with Rama
(and Rama might have obliged, going by past 
experience), did no such thing and in fact returned 
happily to Ayodhya ("ArurOha ratham hruShta:"). The
key things here is that he did not come back sad 
thinking that he had failed; he came back happy that
he was doing what his brother wanted.

It is said that when Guha first saw Lakshamana, he
was greatly impressed by him and wondered at the
greatness of such a brother. But when he saw Bharata
later, he said that 'here indeed is a true brother'.

I heard this is in an upanyasam: Guha attempted to
explain Lakshmana's greatness to Bharata - Nampillai
records this as someone trying to move the water in
an ocean with his hands. But, he also mentions that
explaining Lakshmana's greatness to Bharata is like
explaining the greatness of a 'kazhi' (a small amount
of water collected from an ocean to extract the salt)
to the ocean itself.

As far as my understanding goes, it is our pUrvAchAryas
stand that Bharata's greatness far exceeds that of
Lakshmana - because of his pAratantryam as opposed
to Lakshmana's sEshatvam.

The ascending order of greatness amongst the four
brothers is - 1. Rama, 2. Lakshmana, 3. Bharata and
4. Shatrughna. The reasons are shown in the vyakhyanam
extract that adiyEn posted a couple of days ago.

adiyEn madhurakavi dAsan


--- Vishnu <vsmvishnu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> SEshatvam is explained in stOtra ratna. AchArya says:
> SarIra bhEdai: tava SEshatAm gatai: which means AdiSEsha
> is for Him 
> in differen forms like cot, pillow etc. So the statement
> "aham sarvam 
> karishyAmi" has to be understood from this perspective,
> which means 
> blemishless service as ordained by Him. Also lakshmaNa is
> younger 
> brother who has to serve the elder one as per his order,
> in our Vedic 
> culture. Kindly correct me if I am wrong. 
> 
> Dasan
> Vishnu
> 



            
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