We read from Srimad-Bhagavatam, Canto Two, Chapter Seven: “Scheduled Incarnations.” TEXT 23 asmat-prasada-sumukhah kalaya kalesa  iksvaku-vamsa avatirya guror nidesetisthan vanam sa-dayitanuja avivesa  yasmin virudhya dasa-kandhara artim arcchat TRANSLATION Due to His causeless mercy upon all living entities within the universe, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, along with His plenary extensions, appeared in the family of Maharaja Iksvaku as the Lord of His internal potency, Sita. Under the...

Lord Balaram went to Vrindavan to console Sri Nanda, Yashoda, and others. During this time, Balaram also performed the rasa dance. The “gopis” were getting anxious and frayed in the absence of Lord Krishna; during that time, Balaram stayed in Vrindavan to amuse Gopis. He stayed there for two months to perform Balaram Rasayatra in the months of Chaitra and Vaisakha. As per Bhagavatam Balaram, during his stay there, he kept himself among Gopis and passed with them in the forest every night to...

The gopis praised the good fortune of Krishna’s flute, for he was able to constantly drink the nectar of Krishna’s lips. Everything in Vraja is spiritual, i.e., conscious, and so the flute could take human form as Sri Vamshivadanananda Thakur. His life story has been recounted by his grandson, Shrivallabha Das, in the book Vamshi-vilasa. Other books which contain details of his life are Shripata-paryatana and Bhakti- ratnakara, and the Gaudiya Vaishnava Abhidhana also gives a brief biography....