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Whose Wives Sacrificed Their Values
There are a few references in where some saints' wives have sacrificed their values

(1) Raamaanujaachaarya
Raamaanuj's wife did  [Raamaanuj and His Disciples]

(2)

Who Left Whom in Favor of God
There are some people ho left even their near and dear in favor of God. This information is based on Tulasee's work "Jaake Prya Na raam Vaidehee...". Meeraa's name is not in this poetry. Although Meeraa was Tulasee's contemporary, but since bothe Tulasee and meeraa's dates are not certain, maybe the information of Meeraa's leaving home has not reached Tulasee, or maybe he had already written this poetry before Meeraa had left her home. --

(1) Bali Left His Guru
When Vishnu incarnated as Vaaman Avataar to take Tri-Lok back from Daitya Raaj Bali and He asked him three steps land; Bali immediately got ready to give it to Him because of several reasons - (1) He was doing a Yagya, so he could not have sent a beggar empty handed, (2) He was asking only 3 steps land which was not a very big thing for him, (3) He was a great donor, so otherwise also nobody used to go empty handed from his palace. Hearing this strange demand Bali's Guru Shukraachaarya understood that he was not an ordinary Braahman boy, He was the Lord of Tri-Lok, so he immediately warned Bali that he should not give anything to that boy. But Bali had already decided so he said - "Guru Jee, If He is Bhagvaan, then it is my good luck that Bhagvaan Himself who gives to everybody, is standing at my door as a beggar. I cannot leave this opportunity just like that. And if He is not Bhagvaan, he cannot harm me anything. So I cannot send Him back empty handed." And he refused to obey his Guru. Guru Jee still wanted to do his good so he sat in the spout of the Sankalp pot and stopped the water. Then Bhagvaan Himself inserted a Kush grass blade to clear the passage and it pierced one eye of Shukraachaarya Jee. The water came out of the pot and the Sankalp was completed.

(2) Bharat left his mother
When King Dasharath wanted to crown Raam King of Ayodhyaa, Dasharath's youngest queen Kaikeyee suddenly created an obstacle in the ceremony by asking her two old booms which Dasharath promised to give to her. On asking what did she want, she asked throne to Bharat and exile to Raam for 14 years. Dasharath tried his best to convince her that Raam did not want kingdom, so there was no problem in giving the kingdom to Bharat, although Bharat will also not prefer to be the King in the presence of Raam, but why did she want to send Raam in exile. Without Raam he would die, but Kaikeyee did not listen to this. Dasharath had to send Raam to forest. After Raam left for forest Dasharath died. At that time Bharat and Shatrughn were not in Ayodhyaa so they were called immediately. When Bharat came to Ayodhyaa and came to know that all that happened because of his mother, he did not speak to his mother for all the 14 years till Raam came back.

(3) Vibheeshan left his brother
Raavan was a great Asur but at the same time he wanted his Mukti (salvation) also. He has known that he had to die by the hands of Bhagvaan, so he was waiting for Bhagvaan to incarnate and break a war with Him. As soon as he heard that Raam had come in Panchvatee and He had killed his three brothers who were like himself, he understood that this was the man who was Bhagvaan. He hatched a plan and abducted His wife Seetaa. He brought Her to Lankaa and kept Her there in the hope that Raam will come to take Her and then he will have a chance to have fight with Him. Both Mandodaree and Vibheeshan tried their best to convince him that Raam was Bhagvaan and if he wanted to rule the world, he should give back Seetaa to Raam but he knew what he was doing and why. So he did not listen to anybody. At last Vibheeshan left him and went to Raam's camp.

(4) Prahlaad left his father
Hiranyakashyap was a very great and mighty Asur. Hearing that Vishnu had killed his brother Hiranyaaksh, he got very angry with Him and decided to kill Him. He did severe Tap to get powers and then started abusing Vishnu. He had four sons, among them his youngest son Prahlaad was Vishnu Bhakt (there are only two Asur who were Vishnu Bhakt - Prahlaad and Vibheeshan, otherwise all other Asur were Shiv Bhakt). Seeing his son being a Vishnu Bhakt he tried to kill him many times by many means, but because of Vishnu's grace he was saved all the time. Seeing all this, one day he got very angry and asked his son to present his God who was saving him all the time. Prahlaad said - "He is everywhere, He is in me, he is in You." Hiranyakashyap asked - "Is He in this pillar also?" Prahlaad replied - "Yes." Angrily he broke that pillar and Lo, there came out Narasinh Bhagvaan. Both fought for some time, but later Bhagvaan killed Hiranyakashyap.

(5) Meeraa left her husband
Meeraa was the queen of a Raajpoot King of Chittod Garh, Raajasthaan. She loved Krishn very much. She has written many poetry about Krishn and used to sing them. The King did not like this, so he several times asked her to take care of her husband, but Meeraa was after Krishn. Her husband also tried to kill her a few times - by sending her some snakes, by sending poison to drink, etc, but Meeraa did not die. At last she left the palace and went away to Mathuraa at the age of 30.

(6) Brij women left their husbands
When Krishn was living in Brij, He used to play flute and attracted not only living beings even cows and calves also gathered about Him. It is said that cows used to come to Him wherever they used to be, and Gopee also left there house work and came to Him running. They did not care for their husbands and children. Their husbands did not like this that their wives ran to a cowherd just on the tune of His flute, so the Gopee left them.

 

 

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