Powerful Lord Balarama has a fair complexion the color of crystal. He wears blue garments and a garland of forest flowers.
His handsome hair is tied in a graceful topknot. Splendid earrings decorate His ears.
His neck is splendidly decorated with garlands of flowers and strings of jewels. His arms are splendidly decorated with bracelets and armlets.
His feet are decorated with splendid jeweled anklets. His father is Maharaja Vasudeva and His mother is Rohini-devi.
Nanda Maharaja is the friend of His father. Yasoda-devi is His mother, Sri Krsna His younger brother and Subhadra His sister.
He is sixteen years old and full of the luster of youth. He is Sri Krsna’s dearest friend. He is a great reservoir of the nectar mellows of many kinds of transcendental pastimes. (SSRKGD)
Sri Rama, or Balarama, is the protector of the devotees of the Lord. Baladeva acts as the spiritual master of all devotees, and by His causeless mercy the fallen souls are delivered. Sri Baladeva appeared as Sri Nityananda Prabhu during the advent of Lord Caitanya, and the great Lord Nityananda Prabhu exhibited His causeless mercy by delivering a pair of extremely fallen souls, namely Jagai and Madhai. (SB 1.14.28-29p)
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Lord Sri Krsna, the Personality of Godhead, along with Balarama, played like a human being, and so masked He performed many superhuman acts.
In the nineteenth and twentieth appearances, the Lord advented Himself as Lord Balarama and Lord Krsnaa in the family of Vrsnis [the Yadu dynasty], and by so doing He removed the burden of the world.
The original Personality of Godhead, the enjoyer, and Balarama, the primeval Lord Ananta, are staying in the ocean of the Yadu dynasty for the welfare, protection and general progress of the entire universe. And the members of the Yadu dynasty, being protected by the arms of the Lord, are enjoying life like the residents of the spiritual sky
There are three Ramas. One Rama is Parasurama (Jamadagnya), another Rama is Lord Ramacandra, and a third Rama is Lord Balarama.
The origin of the material creation is Maha-Vishnu, who lies in the Causal Ocean. While He sleeps in that ocean, millions of universes are generated as He exhales, and they are all annihilated when He inhales. This Maha-Vishnu is a plenary portion of a portion of Vishnu, Govinda. The word kala refers to a plenary portion of a plenary portion. From Krsna, or Govinda, comes Balarama; from Balarama comes Shankarsan; from Shankarshan, Narayana; from Naryana, the second Shankarshan; from the second Shankarshan, Maha-Vishnu; from Maha-Vishnu, Garbhodakasayi Vishnu; and from Garbhodakasayi Vishnu, Khsirodakasayi Vishnu. Khirodakshayi Vishnu controls every universe. This gives an idea of the meaning of ananta, unlimited.
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