The schedule for this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Balaram\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Appearance day on Saturday 13th August includes:<\/p>\n
7am- Deity Greeting (Last day of Jhulan Yatra)<\/p>\n
7.45am \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Guru Puja<\/p>\n
8.30am- Class by Kripamoya prabhu<\/p>\n
10am- Bhajans<\/p>\n
11am- Harinam (most devotees leaving the Manor car park by 11am)<\/p>\n
1pm \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Feast<\/p>\n
7pm- Gaura Arati<\/p>\n
Who is Lord Balaram?<\/p>\n
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna, is the fountainhead of all incarnations. Lord Balarama is His second body. 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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pastimes. He is the source of the entire spiritual world and is the adi-guru, the original spiritual master.<\/p>\n
He assumes five other forms to serve Lord Krishna. He does the work of creation in four other forms called the catur-vyuha (four armed) forms known as Vasudeva, Sankarshana, Pradyumna and Anirudha. He executes the orders of Lord Krishna in the work of creation, and in the form of Lord Sesa He serves in various ways. In all the forms He tastes the transcendental bliss of serving Krishna. No one can approach Krishna without first getting the mercy of Baladeva.<\/p>\n
Descent of Balarama<\/p>\n
Whenever Krishna appears in the material world, He is accompanied by His associates. Five thousand years ago when Krishna descended into the material world, He was first preceded by Balaram. Only after Balaram give His permission did Krishna descend, such is the intimate relationship between Them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The schedule for this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Balaram\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Appearance day on Saturday 13th August includes: 7am- Deity Greeting (Last day of Jhulan Yatra) 7.45am \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Guru Puja 8.30am- Class by Kripamoya prabhu 10am- Bhajans 11am- Harinam (most devotees leaving the Manor car park by 11am) 1pm \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Feast 7pm- Gaura Arati Who is Lord Balaram? The Supreme […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-message-board"],"views":4817,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iskconuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iskconuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iskconuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iskconuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iskconuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/iskconuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iskconuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iskconuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iskconuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}