Take the Shyam road out of Delhi towards Khatu. This channel plays the bhajans of Hare ka Sahara without stopping — the same ones that carry the walkers with their nishan.
Listen to this channelFree • no ads • around the clockDelhi to Khatu Shyam is about 265 kilometres and takes roughly five hours on NH 48. The road runs through Gurugram and Behror and drops into Sikar district in Rajasthan, with Khatu a short distance on from Ringas.
During the Falgun fair the last stretch is walked. The road from Ringas to Khatu fills with people carrying nishan flags, and bhajans play the whole way.
Shyam Baba of Khatu is identified with Barbarik, son of Ghatotkacha and grandson of Bhima. The story goes that before the Mahabharata war Krishna asked him for his head in charity, and Barbarik gave it without hesitation. Pleased, Krishna gave him his own name — Shyam — and the boon that he would be worshipped by it in the Kali Yuga.
That is why he is called Hare ka Sahara, the support of the defeated, and also Teen Baan Dhari, bearer of three arrows. The temple is in Khatu village in Sikar district. The Lakhi Mela held around Falgun Shukla Ekadashi is the largest gathering here, drawing lakhs of people carrying nishan.
The Hare ka Sahara mood carries Shyam Baba's bhajans and the aarti — the compositions heard at the Khatu darbar and along the Nishan Yatra. The second mood, Sampurna Bhakti, draws from the whole collection.
The channel starts in a different order each time, so repeated visits do not open on the same song.
The belief is that Shyam Baba stands by whoever has lost everywhere else. Barbarik gave away his own head, and that act of sacrifice is why he is held to be the support of the defeated.
Yes, the Shyam aarti is in this channel's collection and comes round in the shuffle.
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Very short videos are skipped automatically so the song does not change every few seconds. Occasionally a track that is unavailable is passed over too.