Balarama Jayanti is celebrated in different parts of India as the birth anniversary of Lord Balarama who was the elder brother of Lord Krishna. It is observed on Shravan Purnima in many parts of the ...

Sometimes people ask who is Lord Balarama? And the answer they get is that he is the brother of Lord Krishna. However, there are many more things about him besides this.The Srimad Bhagavatam describes ...

Balarama and Krishna often had different points of view on issues. And yet they were inseparable, said Kidambi Narayanan in a discourse. In fact, it was often the case that if Krishna said something, ...

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They are both one and the same identity. They differ only in form. Balarama is the first bodily expansion of Krishna, and He assists in Lord Krishna’s transcendental pastimes. He is the source of the ...

In the Mahabharata, behind every episode we find the Lord’s planning, said V.S. Karunakarachariar, in a discourse. Satrajit was the father of Satyabhama, who married Lord Krishna. Satrajit owned the ...

This year, Balaram Jayanti is on August 28. Balarama Jayanti marks the birth of Lord Balarama, the elder brother of Lord Krishna. Balarama Jayanti is also known as Baladeva Chhath in the Braja region ...