Yamaraja - a glorious personality

Names for Yamaraja

Yamarāja | Yavaneśvara | Yavana-rāja | Yama | Dharmaraja | Yavanesvara | Dharma

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Krsna and Balarama summon Yamaraja

Facts about Yamaraja - one of the twelve Mahajanas, a demigod and a saintly king

• grandson of Kaśyapa Muni and Aditi
• son of Vivasvān and Saṁjñā
• brother of Yāmi, Vaivasvata Manu, The Aśvinī-kumāras and Jarā (old age)
• husband of thirteen daughters of Dakṣa (first birth) and ten daughters of Dakṣa (re-birth)
• father of Śri Nara-Nārāyaṇa, Eight Vasus, Upendra, Agni, Bhadraśravā, and Yudhiṣṭhira by Kuntī
• grandfather of Viśvakarmā
• great-grandfather of Cākṣuṣa Manu

• residence: A heavenly city called Saṁyamanī on Yamaloka

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A FEW LINES OF SUMMARY TEXT ABOUT YAMARAJA GOES HERE

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Selection of quotes from srila Prabhupada's books

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Yamaraja, the great controller of life after death, decides the living entities' destinies in their next lives.

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After his (an envious person's) death, he is taken to hell by Yamaraja, those living entities who were hurt by him appear as animals called rurus to inflict very severe pain upon him.

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Yama is situated in a planet near this earthly planet. After death those who are very sinful are taken there, and Yama arranges different kinds of punishments for them.

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Yamaraja wanted to preach the glories of the Lord, and therefore by the will of the Lord he was cursed by Manduka Muni to come into the world in the incarnation of Vidura and work very hard as a great devotee.

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Yamaraja is not a fictitious or mythological character; he has his own abode, Pitrloka, of which he is king. Agnostics may not believe in hell, but Sukadeva Gosvami affirms the existence of the Naraka planets.

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Yamaraja has very little time to take leave from his responsible office of punishing the wrongdoers. There are more wrongdoers than righteous men. Therefore Yamaraja has to do more work than other demigods.

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Yamaraja is a great devotee of the Lord, and he likes to be invited to kirtanas and sacrifices by the pure devotees, who are constantly engaged in the devotional service of the Lord.

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The nondevotees' accounts are kept by Yamaraja for punishment. Similarly, devotees' accounts are kept by Krsna, personally.