The King who sold himself to protect Dharma

Bharata the land is very famous for many great personalities whether it is sacrifice, austerity, honesty or truthfulness.

In the line of Ikshvaku dynasty where supreme personality of Godhead Lord Rama Himself descended there was a great king named Harish Chandra. He was very famous for his honesty and truthfulness.

When their fame reached in heaven and demigods planning to take test of King Harish Chandra great sage and spiritual master of King Harish Chandra Vashishtha agreed to take test of his disciple any time.

Hearing this sage Vishwamitra who was little envious to Vashishta asked, "What if your disciple fail in test?"

Sage Vashishtha replied very confidently, "I will give up my position of sage and live a normal life".

Vishwamitra agreed, he went to take test of King Harish Chandra. He created a kingdom from his mystic power where three beautiful girls were there, one day while Harish Chandra was going through these girls warmly welcomed and Harish Chandra pleased by their hospitality.

While he was leaving sage Vishwamitra appeared and asked to marry those three girls, Harish Chandra replied, my dear sage I am already married and have son I can not marry with these girls.

Sage Vishwamitra got angry and asked then in return you have to give up your whole asset, King Harish Chandra agreed but while he was leaving sage Vishwamitra asked to give extra money as you have nothing yours now you have to pay it from your own.

King Harish Chandra went to Kashi (Varanasi) to work and along with him their wife Taramati and son Rohit also went. When they reached at Kashi they asked many people to they are ready to sell if some one can pay that much amount what sage Vishamitra is needed.

King Harish Chandra sold himself to the owner of cremation ground where he has to work at Manikarnika Ghat (the famous place in Varansi where it is considered that mother Parvati's earing was fallen down while Lord Shiva was roaming carring mother Parvati on His shoulder) and his wife and son were working at home of a rich person.

One day when prince Rohit went to cut the wood a snake bit and he immediately died. Taramati took her son and went to cremation and asked to burn his child, but in return King Harish Chandra asked money, she refused to pay as she was nothing in hand.

At the same time few soldiers came and arrested Taramati to stealing the child of king Varansi and punishment was to cut the head. They ordered King Harish Chandra to cut the head of Taramati, King Harish Chandra took the sword in his hand and going to cut the head of his own wife .

Suddenly there was rain of flower petals and all demigods along with sage Vishwamitra appeared and son of King Harish Chandra Rohit also wake up everything seems magical.

Sage Vishwamitra smiled and appreciated King Harish Chandra for protecting his Dharma even he snetched everything from him and he retruend everything along with with his kingdom and gave more boons too.

From that day we believe no one can be higher in truthfulness and honesty like King Harish Chandra.

One who protect Dharma, Dharma protect him.

Hare Krishna!

Life is a preparation, death is an examination

We participate in so many exams in our life, and get the results as per our preparation for that exams. But most of the exams we have option, whether to attempt it or not? But there is one exam in our life which we may ignore saying we will see when it would come in our life, but we all have to attempt we don't have any choice, whether we are poor, rich, educated or illiterate. Srila Prabhupada used to say, this life is our preparation how we are preparing our-self for coming exam. Because that exam has no prior time table, no time period, no grace marks, and no cheat sheet allowed. And you may be surprise to know, all our activities are recorded by Yamduta for our each and every moments with evidence. Yes, Yamduta will show your answer sheet and you can review it, whether he has marked you in correct way or not? You are successful, if you are passed your exams but if you are failed then you don't know when you will have to reattempt that exam (it could be after 84 laces bir

Be Humble - Time can change everything

When we get name, fame and power we puffed by the false ego and become arrogant to the people and think no one is greater than me. But our history says, who were arrogant, time has collapsed all of them. None of us can say, I can beat the time and can go against it. We all are under control of Time as Lord Krishna has already stated in the Bhagwad Gita (I am the time and eveything is under my control). But due to our false ego we do not accept this fact become arrogant with other people instead of becoming humble with them. Who was "King of Good times" now became "King of bad times", so easily we can understand time make us King or Beggar. So we should be always being humble with the people in our Good times and take blessings from them for our bad times, but we do exactly opposite of it, we become arrogant in Good times and seek for blessings in our bad times. But what is the use of it, when you hurt someone, you lose sympathy from that person's heart.

A visit to GEV

Srila Prabhupada was very much concerned about modern life style and he always used to tell his disciples, only building temples are not enough to live a pure Krishna Conscious way of life along with it we must follow our Vedic Culture and in our Vedic Culture we were fully dependent on Cows and Lands but in modern age we have rejected both and result we are not getting healthy foods and milk products. So we have to build Farm Communities where we can live a healthy life and in minimum amount of time we can produce grains, vegetables, fruits and milk products etc. and rest of the time they can do their devotional service. Milk and Grains can not be produced in factories and for this we require Cows and Lands. Govardhan Ecovillage is a project of International Society for Krishna Consciousness. The project is owned and managed by ISKCON Wada, Maharashtra. It is the result of an ardent desire of H.H.Radhanath Swami Maharaj to fulfill the dream of his beloved guru, His Divine

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