"Hare ka Sahara, Baba Shyam Hamara" you must have read these lines on various cars or billboards with a mark of Dhanush & 3 Arrows. This is the mark of Khatu Shyam Baba who was once known as Barbarik.

Barbarik was the only warrior in the legend of Mahabharat, who was invincible enough to be abetted by Lord Krishna himself, to commit suicide so that he can be prevented from engaging in the war. Barbarik was a symbol of equality, who was bound by his principle to always fight for the weaker side.

This episode of Holy Tales by Himanshu Sharma will tell you the story of Barbareek to Khatu Shyam Baba.

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Krishna Janmashtami is one of the most significant festivals among Hindus as Lord Shree Krishna was born on this day as the incarnation of Lord Vishnu. Most of us know the story of his birth in the jail of his maternal uncle King Kansa.

But this episode of Holy Tales by Himanshu Sharma will tell you one more secret that Vasudev & Devaki did not became parents of the Lord for the first time. This was third time for them.

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A king in Hindu religion who belonged to Ikshvaku descendancy. Trishanku is commonly referred to through mention of "Trishanku's heaven". The word Trishanku has come to denote a middle ground or limbo between one's goals or desires and one's current state or possessions.

This episode of Holy Tales by Himanshu Sharma will tell you how a desire of a king to reach heaven in his human form took him to a wierd state.

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Created by the god Brahma as the most beautiful woman, Ahalya was married to the much older Gautama. In the earliest full narrative, when Indra comes disguised as her husband, Ahalya sees through his disguise but nevertheless accepts his advances. 
This episode of Holy Tales by Himanshu Sharma will tell you how few minutes of anger can crush the entire fate.

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Mistakes aren't always bad. Sometimes, when we look back in our life, we find few mistakes pretty fruitful. 
This episode of Holy Tales by Himanshu Sharma will tell you how a good mistake by a small kid transformed his life & made him a great Devi Devotee.

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Whether Gods or Demons, every kingdom had a Guru in the past. Brihaspati was Devguru and Shukracharya was Daitya Guru who were classmates during their schooling. Still one had an edge over the other as Gods & Demons were always fighting.

This episode of Holy Tales by Himanshu Sharma will tell you how Devguru's Son fell in love with Daitya Guru's Daughter & lost his life's main motive.

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In a  world without ignorance, all knowledge would come to everyone without effort and so would become valueless. Thus, 
Lord Shiva in the form of Nataraj
danced & decided to keep a demon of ignorance crushed under one foot.
 
This episode of Holy Tales will tell you how Mahadev taught an important  lesson to this world through Apasmara an immortal devil.

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Every Shiva Temple in India have Nandi sitting near Shivaling. It is so fascinated to see such a devotee  who always followed his master in every situation.

This episode of HOLY TALES by Himanshu Sharma will tell you the story behind Nandi who devoted his entire life to Lord Shiva.

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Tirupati Balaji par Karz hai

Tirupati Balaji is one of the richest temples of India with more than 50k crore wealth but still the God himself is under debt.

This episode of HOLY TALES by Himanshu Sharma will tell you the story behind devotees donating lots of rupees & gold to God so that he comes out of his debt.

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Hanuman ji is also known as Pawan Putra as he was born with the blessings of Pawan Dev. Similarly, one of the Pandav in Mahabharata, Bheem was also called Pawan Putra for the same reason.

This episode of Holy Tales by Himanshu Sharma will tell you how immortal God Hanuman ji helped his brother Bheem after the epic Mahabharata war.

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