yathā yathā gaura-padāravinde
vindeta bhaktiṁ kṛta-puṇya-rāśiḥ
tathā tathotsarpati hṛdy akasmād
rādhā-padāmbhoja-sudhāmbu-rāśiḥ
There is an ocean that floods the heart of such unqualified people just by getting introduced to Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. How has it happened? By the mercy of Lord Balarāma. So Rāma is the part:
ramante yogino ’nante
satyānande cid-ātman
iti rāma-padenāsau
paraṁ brahmābhidhīyate
(eighth verse of the Śata-nāma-stotra of Lord Rāmacandra, Padma Purāṇa. Quoted in Cc Madhya 9.29)
By Rāma, and even by the name Rāma, you experience such a high pleasure that you can just move on from the material world. Bala means you can get the strength, because balam balavatāṁ cāham—Kṛṣṇa says, "I am the strength of the strong." Right? That’s Balarāma. If we are in an unfortunate situation where we know where to move on to, we know what we want, but we just can’t do it—that’s called weakness of heart, W.O.H., weal and woe. We can pray to Lord Balarāma to overcome weakness of heart. What would it feel like to not have weakness of heart? We would be fearless. We would be non-envious. We would just move in the world with only one objective, and that is to give the mercy to others that we’ve received. What a life that is! Balarāma, Lord Nityānanda, gives us that opportunity.
So we are in the right place. If we make this our objective as a community and individually, even if we feel we are oceans away, Balarāma will help us. He’s our patron saint—the patron saint of the fallen jīvas in the material world and causelessly merciful. "Who is this person?" Nobody cares, because He is with you! Lord Balarāma, Lord Nityānanda—He is with me; He is in. It’s not what you know, but who you know that counts in life. A good lawyer knows the law, and a great lawyer knows the judge.
So Balarāma as a personality, as part of Kṛṣṇa’s personalities and expansion, He is the one who expands the whole material world just so we can have an opportunity. And then He keeps doing it over and over again eternally. It’s always going on for every conditioned soul to have the opportunity to say, "I want to go back to that original position of being non-envious, without any fear, and only service in my heart. That’s all I want."
If we pray to Lord Balarāma for that strength of heart, He will give it to us. That’s why we celebrate today—because that’s what we want. Even if we don’t have the strength to pray like that, because I might be so ridden with weakness of heart that I might even be afraid to pray like that. Well, somehow or other, He pulls us along. He is so strong and He is so attractive. So we should pray like that, and even if we can’t, we should try to rub shoulders with those who are praying like that, and it’ll enter our hearts as well. (0:35:12)
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