YAMUNA RIVER
When Lord Balarama visited Vrndavana for two months, He would enjoy at night with His cowherd girlfriends in a garden on the bank of the Yamuna. One night, intoxicated with joy and Varuni (a liquid honey form of the daughter of Varuna) Lord Balarama summoned Yamuna so that he could play in her waters. Thinking that the Lord was drunk, she disregarded His command. This angered Lord Balarama, and He began dragging the river with the tip of His plow, Hala. Lord Balarama said, ” O sinful one disrespecting Me, you do not come when I call you but rather move by you own whim. Therefore, with the tip if My plow I shall bring you here in a hundred streams.”
At this time Yamuna realizing her mistake sought to please the Lord with kind words and immediately presented her waters for His enjoyment. Thereupon He released her and, like the king of elephants with his entourage of she-elephants, entered the rivers water with His female companions. (Krishna Book Vol. II, pg.220) It is noted that after pleasing Lord Krishna’s gopis with words, that Lord Balarama had the above mentioned relations with His own separate gopis. Lord Balarama performed His own rasa-lila at Ram Ghat, which is a long distance from the site of Krishna’s rasa-lila. The gopis attached to Krishna in the mood of madhurya rasa would be attached to Lord Balarama in the mood of friendship only and vice-versa. While Lord Balarama performed rasa-lila for two months, Krishna’s gopis watched from a distance.
Lord Balarama respects Lord Krishna’s gopis and is very careful to avoid mixing with them. (Appreciating Sri Vrndavana Dhama, pg.71)
If while walking on Govardhana Hill, Krishna’s elder brother Balarama, sees a series of golden stones, He thinks: “The daughter of King Vrsabanu (Radharani) must have just walked before Me,” and Balarama changes course to avoid an awkward situation. In the same way if Radharani sees a series of crystal stones, She thinks, “Balarama must have just walked before Me,” and Radharani then changes course. (Appreciating Sri Vrndavana Dhama, pg 113)
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