Shree Ram Raja Sarkar.
Only temple in the world where Shri Ram is worshipped as a King Ram.
A King's Palace was turned overnight into a Temple in the 15th century.
The Creator of Universe Shri Ram is also considered as a King of Orchha State in M.P. No one including Prime Minister/Chief Minister is being given a salute by the Police here. Only Shri Ram is considered as a unified government in Orchha.
All the daily rituals and puja of Shri Ram is done like a King in his full glory!
It is a true tale of 15th century.
Ruler of Orchha Madhukar Shah Ji was an ardent devotee of Shri Banke Bihari (Krishna) whereas his wife Ganesh Kunwari was devoted to Shri Ram. Once upon a time, they both went to a temple of Lord Krishna. The temple was closed so they waited outside for the opening. They were joined by a group of devotees there who were dancing and singing in the praise of Shri Krishna. It is believed that Shri Krishna and Radha themselves came and took part in that devotional ceremony. After this, King asked Queen to go to Mathura-Vrindavan with her for the darshan of Shri Banke Bihari but the Queen wanted to go to Ayodhya for darshan of Shri Ram.
The King became angry on Queen and said her that you always keep praying to the child form of Shri Ram but he never gave darshan to us like Shri Krishna did today. So if you want to go Ayodhya, Go! But return only with the child form of Shri Ram.
Queen Ganesh Kunwari went to Ayodhya and started doing very hard Tapasya with a firm decision in her mind that either I will have a darshan of Shri Ram or I will submit my life in the Saryu river. Many days passed but Shri Ram didn't appeared in front of her eyes. So one fine day, in the midnight she jumped in the Saryu river. But a strange thing happened!
Instead of drowning, she found herself in the shore of river and on her lap she found Bal Swaroop Ram (child Ram) sitting and smiling at her. Queen, with tears of joy in her eyes prayed to Shri Ram and asked a boon to come with her to Orchha and live there.
Shri Ram agreed on three conditions. First is they will travel from Ayodhya to Orchha only in Pushya Nakshatra. Second is once he reached Orchha, he will be the King from that moment onwards of Orchha. Third is, wherever the Queen seat me first after her lap will be my final seat and I will remain seated there always.
The Queen readily agreed and it took 8 months and 27 days to reach from Ayodhya to Orchha as they travelled only in Pushya Nakshatra. Before leaving Orchha, Queen ordered to strat building a Chaturbhuj Temple without letting the King know. Meanwhile, Shri Krishna came in the dream of King Madhukar and scolded him for differentiating between Krishna and Ram. King realised his mistake and went with all the horses, elephants and glories to receive the Queen with Shri Ram.
King apologised to the Queen and they happily entered the Orchha. Queen Ganesh Kunwari rested Shri Ram in her palace and thought that next day Shri Ram will be seated in his Chaturbhuj Temple.
But as Shri Ram stated the condition, he remained seated and transformed into an idol in the bedroom of Queen in her palace and nobody was able to move him from there to Chaturbhuj Temple.
On that day, the palace was converted into a temple and Shri Ram became the King of Orchha state. This was the same day when Tulsidas Ji completed writing the story of Ram Ramcharitmanas.
It is also said that this idol was actually of Ram Janma Mandir in Ayodhya. Because of continuous attacks on Temples and rituals of Sanatan Dharm, Shri Ram decided to move from Ayodhya to Orchha. People believe that Shri Ram stays in Orchha at day time and went to sleep to Ayodhya everyday.
All sorts of photography and videography is prohibited inside the temple. Also it is believed that if anyone takes the darshan of the lotus feet of Shri Ram here, all his/her wishes gets fulfilled. But as Shri Ram is seated in Padmasana (Lotus Shape) it is very difficult to see his feet.
Shri Ram is present here alongisde Maa Sita, Lakshman, Hanuman, Sugreev, Jamvant, Narasimha and Ma Durga in Ram Darbar.
A Guard of Honor is given to Shri Ram daily 5 times by the Police as he is the King of the State!
Also nobody dares to do any sinful deeds and take any sort of bribes or do corruption as they fear their King Shri Ram.
There is nothing mysterious about the temple as Shri Ram is the the creator of uncountable universes so it's very obvious that he is the King of Kings as well!
Jai Shri Ram
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