The village of Uhava is situated two and a half kilometres from Sri Bihara Vana and two kilometres west of Dhimari. In the village, on the bank of the Yamuna, is Sri Khecadauji. It was here that Sri Balaramaji pulled (khece) at the Yamuna, making her course crooked, hence the village is named Uve and the temple is named Sri Khecadauji. Behind the village, on the bank of the Yamuna, is Sri Rama Ghata. Next to the Ghata and the temple is an Asvattha-tree. This tree is known as a friend of Sri Balarama.

How to get there: You can easily go to this place by Auto from Vrindavana.  

      H.H Rajasekhara Dasa Brahmachari explains about this place: “This is the celebrated place near the banks of the Yamuna where Lord Balarama performed rasa-lila pastimes with His cowherd girlfriends. In the Bhakti-ratnakara it says that Balarama came all the way from Dwaraka to spend time with the residents of Vrindavana, who were continuing to feel acute separation from both Krishna and He. On His arrival, Balarama met everyone including mother Yashoda, Nanda Maharaja, the gopis, and the cowherd boys, with whom He spent many long hours and was able to somewhat pacify them with soothing words of encouragement. Balarama also met many new gopis who were lamenting that they were far too young at the time to take part in Krishna and Balarama’s pastimes. During the period of His two months stay, He would enter the forests in the evenings with all His former girlfriends including many new gopis and satisfy their desires to enjoy conjugal love. On the occasion of the full-moon night, Balarama came to Rama Ghata with all these beautiful gopis and after they drank varuni nectar, a type of honey liquor, they engaged in ecstatic rasa-lila pastimes.”

      “After many long hours of rasa-dancing, Balarama was feeling a little fatigued and desired to relax in the cooling waters of the Yamuna. Feeling too intoxicated to walk to the river, Balarama called Yamuna Devi to bring her soothing waters to where He was resting, so that He might refresh Himself within the river. Thinking that Balarama was simply too intoxicated with varuni liquor to know what He was saying, Yamuna Devi mistakenly ignored His request. Realizing that Yamuna had ignored His order and refused to come there, Balarama become suddenly very angry and His eyes turned a fierce red color, picking up His personal weapon, the celebrated plough; He immediately began to drag the Yamuna towards the arena of the rasa-dance. Realizing her great mistake, Yamuna Devi immediately came before Balarama, and throwing herself at His lotus feet, begged for forgiveness. Balarama’s anger was thus pacified by Yamuna’s prayers and He entered the river to relax in its cooling water with His many girlfriends. There is a temple here dedicated to Balarama’s pastimes known as Khencha-dauji Mandira. This word ‘kencha’ means to ‘to drag’ or ‘to pull’ and refers to Krishna’s elder brother Dauji or Balarama, having dragged the Yamuna with His plough at this place.

    Lord Nityananda also visited Rama Ghata during His pilgrimage to Vrindavana and stayed here for a few days absorbed in the mood of a cowherd boy.

Sri NivaranaGhata (Dhimari)

After visiting Sri Rama Ghata, I decided to visit Dhimari village as well, which is around 2    kilometres from Sri Rama Ghata. This is on the bank of the Yamuna. Next to this village, on the bank of the Yamuna, is Sri Nivarana Ghata.

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