Krsna explains in BG that I am the source of all material and spiritual worlds. The wise you know this pray with all their hearts. He is the source of all the material and spiritual worlds. All of this originates from Krsna. He is the atmaram. He is enjoying unlimited pleasure in himself. But his pleasure increases he further expands into so many planery expansions to give pleasure to Krsna. The first expansion is Balaram and through Balaram all the other expansions come out. Krsna is the seva bhagavan and Balaram is the sevak bhagavan. He is the same as Krsna but in the form of Balaram he is actually serving Krsna. That is the role of Balaramji. The abode of Krsna is Balaram. Sesa sayya. He is very powerful. He not only derives pleasure in exhibiting his strength but also to give strength to others. He is the original Guru is Balaram. Why? Balaramji is trying to please Krsna. Serving Krsna - that is what he is doing. The conditioned soul, our purpose, our svaroop is the eternal servant of Krsna. But we have forgotten that. The conditioned soul is thinking I'm the seva bhagavan. Everyone is here to serve me and I'm the enjoyer. That is the sleeping state of conditioned soul. But Balaramji is actually the original spiritual master who is always serving Krsna. Till initiation we are always thinking we are prabhu. But after initiation we understand that we are actually dasa! We then understand that we are actually the eternal servant of Krsna. Even when he comes as Lakshman he forgets that he has a wife, his own family, he gives up his garments and puts on his mendicant garments and he is ready to serve the Lord. My Lord, my master is going to the forest, there is no question that I am going to serve them. For 14 long years he guarded them at night and didn't even sleep. He didn't even sleep during the day. He was absorbed in serving Ram and Sita without a break. But we are always looking to take a break from spiritual life. We feel oh we have done a lot of bhakti now let's take a break. NO! Be like LAKSHMAN. always uninterrupted seva. He was constantly thinking and serving Krsna. He wasn't even looking for any credit. On the contrary, Sita mataji criticizes Lakshan that now you are trying to not protect Rama but are actually trying to let him die so you can enjoy me. If it were us, we would have given up. But Lakshman, no matter what was always serving Rama and Sita. Just tolerate and continue to serve Krsna. That is what Balaramji came to teach us.
2 weapons Balaramji carries - club and plow. Both of them have a significance. Plow is indicating, that when Krnsa is a Gwala, Balarama is engaging the Bulls. The bull is tilling the land. When the cows are taken care by Krsna, Balaramji is engaging the bulls. He is preparing our heart so the seed of bhakti can be sown so bhakti creeper can grow. Balaramji is using the plow to penetrate the heart and is making it ready for bhakti. The spiritual master and his instructions are helping to soften the heart. The club is trying to smash our false ego. When our ego is crushed, Balaramji's club is at work. Balaramji was actually present in all the 5 rasas and he was serving Krsna.
Santa - as his abode
Dasya - servant of Krsna
Sakhya - as friend
Vatsalya rasa - as his elder brother.
Madhurya rasa- Ananya majari
They had so many pasttimes with each other. Trees were bending to give him respect. 2 types of demons - some were killed by Krsna and other demons by Balarama. These are the special anarthas which can be smashed only by the spiritual master. For example - pasttime of Pralambasura - this demon signifies the gross and subtle sex desire LUST. We need the special mercy of the spiritual master to kill this gross and subtle sex desire. Gross desire is to enjoy the opposite sex and Subtle desire is to get some false prestige. Hence only by begging for the mercy of the spiritual master can we kill these demons of anarthas. Similar way we pray to the spiritual master and Balaramji so he is very merciful to help us remove all these anarthas.
Hence we should always keep praying to Krsna and Balaramji - that we have so many anarthas, please be very merciful so you can protect me and remove all these anarthas so you can soften my heart and it's ready for the bhakti seed to fructify in my heart. Dhenakasura signifies the demon of ass like mentality of the conditioned soul - just work hard for nothing. Guru helps us to come out of this mentality of working like an ass and also to help us curb this LUST or sex desire. All we need to do is pray to the spiritual master and balaramji everyday to help us remove these anarthas from our heart - the 2 anarthas can be killed by the gada of Balaram and the spiritual master. Mood to do this is to hear from spiritual master and engage in the service of the spiritual master and what is that mean?- serving the vaishnavas and to engage in the preaching mission by distributing books to others.
2 weapons Balaramji carries - club and plow. Both of them have a significance. Plow is indicating, that when Krnsa is a Gwala, Balarama is engaging the Bulls. The bull is tilling the land. When the cows are taken care by Krsna, Balaramji is engaging the bulls. He is preparing our heart so the seed of bhakti can be sown so bhakti creeper can grow. Balaramji is using the plow to penetrate the heart and is making it ready for bhakti. The spiritual master and his instructions are helping to soften the heart. The club is trying to smash our false ego. When our ego is crushed, Balaramji's club is at work. Balaramji was actually present in all the 5 rasas and he was serving Krsna.
Santa - as his abode
Dasya - servant of Krsna
Sakhya - as friend
Vatsalya rasa - as his elder brother.
Madhurya rasa- Ananya majari
They had so many pasttimes with each other. Trees were bending to give him respect. 2 types of demons - some were killed by Krsna and other demons by Balarama. These are the special anarthas which can be smashed only by the spiritual master. For example - pasttime of Pralambasura - this demon signifies the gross and subtle sex desire LUST. We need the special mercy of the spiritual master to kill this gross and subtle sex desire. Gross desire is to enjoy the opposite sex and Subtle desire is to get some false prestige. Hence only by begging for the mercy of the spiritual master can we kill these demons of anarthas. Similar way we pray to the spiritual master and Balaramji so he is very merciful to help us remove all these anarthas.
Hence we should always keep praying to Krsna and Balaramji - that we have so many anarthas, please be very merciful so you can protect me and remove all these anarthas so you can soften my heart and it's ready for the bhakti seed to fructify in my heart. Dhenakasura signifies the demon of ass like mentality of the conditioned soul - just work hard for nothing. Guru helps us to come out of this mentality of working like an ass and also to help us curb this LUST or sex desire. All we need to do is pray to the spiritual master and balaramji everyday to help us remove these anarthas from our heart - the 2 anarthas can be killed by the gada of Balaram and the spiritual master. Mood to do this is to hear from spiritual master and engage in the service of the spiritual master and what is that mean?- serving the vaishnavas and to engage in the preaching mission by distributing books to others.
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