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Varsana, April 14, 2015: While the whole Vraja looked on in horror as the recent hailstorm devastated the farmers, it was not less than a miracle that the Palson village, in Varsana Block, remained unaffected from the massive destruction. The neighboring villages suffered the hailstorm, but the Palson village was spared. The villagers claimed that their village never witnessed the hailstorm since 1978, when they had suffered a huge loss due to the freak weather and hailstorm similar to this year. According to the villagers, their village is protected with the blessings of a saint who lived 36 years back in the village. Sanatan Baba used to live and meditate in this village. When he found the villagers in distress due to the hailstorm and rain, his heart melted. He was pained to see, even the children didn’t have enough to eat. He decided to stop any further destruction of the crops in that village. He performed a special yajna, in which four stones were placed in all the four directions of the village. Villagers claim that after the religious ceremony, the village remained unaffected from the natural calamities. Baba Sanatan Das predicted that the village would never suffer by the hailstorm and other natural disasters. The villagers have full faith in Baba’s prediction. Shri Rameshwar Das of the Radha Mohan temple of the village said, “The villagers built a temple of Sanatan Baba, in gratitude, after he passed away. A donation of the 5 kg grain is received by the temple after each harvest from every household of the village to feed the poor. Former-village headman Durga Singh said, “The village is grateful to Baba, as his protection still continues to safeguard our village.” “We don’t care if people call it superstition. We can feel that our village is protected due to Baba’s blessings only,” added Durga Singh. This village has a significance of being the ‘meditation place’ of Lord Parashuram also. The devotees can have the darshan of the deity of Lord Parashuram in the Radha Mohan Mandir. A water body was also named after Parshuram in this village.

Varsana, March 4, 2015: Tense situation prevailed in the Hathia village in Varsana after a cow was slaughtered. When people opposed the slaughtering, tension erupted between two communities. Bullets were fired from both sides for two hours. Two people were hurt in the firing, while many were wounded. When the police rushed the village the miscreants fled the scene. The police had deployed adequate force in the village to prevent any untoward incident in the village. This incident occurred when some youths saw Tahir aka Kallu slaughtering a cow, with two other men. When they resisted, Kallu and his associates attacked those who protested the slaughtering. Meanwhile Tahir, the person who slaughtered the cow lodged a complaint against Bhavani. In the complaint he accused Bhavani inviting him at his home to make a deal to sell a tractor. When he reached Bhawani’s house he assaulted Tahir by beating him badly. He named eight other people in the assault. Counter report was also lodged from the Hindu side against eighteen people. The news spread like fire in the other villages of Varsana in which the tension between the two communities heightened. When some people from the Hindu community were discussing the incident near the bus stand, the members from the minority community also came there and began abusing them, which resulted in heavy firing from both the sides. People closed themselves in the houses after the incident. The Varsana police reached the spot but couldn’t stop the fire exchange as the number of police force was not enough. Then the incident was reported to the District headquarters from where extra force was sent to control the situation. Two persons were injured in the exchange of gunfire. Nobody was ready to open their mouth. The District Magistrate and the Senior Superintendent of Police visited the village and deployed the Reserved Police Force. On Tuesday, the muslim group from the village came forward to compromise. According to the sources, they organized a panchayat with in their community in which they fined the three miscreants with Rs. 1,05, 000. They also decided if anyone else slaughters cow in the village they would be fined Rs. 51,000. The informer will be rewarded with Rs. 11000. A grand panchayat will be organized in which the members of the both community will sit and take bigger decision so that the incident doesn’t occur again. Meanwhile the District authorities have sent the report to the state government about the communal tension. The measures were taken to bring peace in the village. Hathia is dominated by the Mev community. It is notorious for all sorts of crime.

Barsana, 2014.10.20 (Maan Mandir): Mataji Goshala not only aims at serving cows brought to it, but is also actively engaged in tracking illegal smugglers of cows. Those working for the goshala regularly put their lives in danger to protect cows and prevent them from being led to slaughter. In an recent incident, the Mataji Goshala team got a tip about a truck illegally carrying cows for slaughter near Mehroli village in a part of Haryana that falls in Braj. The team got together and chalked out a plan to rescue them. Cow smugglers are often equipped with deadly weapons, and this was the situation in this case as well. As soon as the Goshala team attempted to stop the smugglers, they shot several rounds of bullets. But by Shriji’s mercy, nobody was hurt. In the end, the team was able to rescue all 38 cows that were in the truck. All the animals found were under severe trauma resulting from fear and pain.