Who was formerly the son of Nanda Maharaja, He has appeared as the son of Sachi Devi.” Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s mother’s name was Sachi Devi. So Krishna. Krishna is Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, and Balarama is Nityananda Prabhu. (In the wallpaper: Shri Shri Gaura Nitay in right and left sides, ISKCON Chennai, Shri Shri Krishna Balarama in the middle).
Prabhupada: So today, the appearance day of Nityananda Prabhu… Nityananda Prabhu is Baladeva, Baladeva-tattva.
vrajendra-nandana yei, saci-suta haila sei,
balarama haila nitai
balarama haila nitai
“Who was formerly the son of Nanda Maharaja, He has appeared as the son of Sachi Devi.” Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s mother’s name was Sachi Devi. So Krishna. Krishna is Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, and Balarama is Nityananda Prabhu. Now.
vrajendra-nandana yei, saci-suta haila sei,
balarama haila nitai
balarama haila nitai
So Balarama… In the Vedic literature it is said, nayam atma bala-hinena labhyah; na bahuna srutena. So bala means strength. Sometimes some rascal philosophers, they take it that bala means bodily strength. They propagate this philosophy that “Unless you are bodily stout and strong, you cannot achieve spiritual salvation. You must be very strong and stout and eat meat and fight, and then you’ll get next spiritual birth” No. This bala, this strength, is different. This is spiritual strength.
The difficulty of the present situation is that actually we are moving on account of spiritual strength, but they have no information of the spiritual strength. They are thinking of material strength. That is expressed here, that
ahankare matta hoiya, nitai-pada pasariya,
asatyere satya kori mani
asatyere satya kori mani
This is due to ahankara. Ahankara-vimudhatma kartaham iti manyate. Those who are vimudha, especially rascal… Mudha, rascals, and vi means visesha, viseshanam, particularly. Ahankara- vimudhatma. The same thing which is spoken in the Bhagavad- gita, Narottama dasa Thakura says the same thing in a plain Bengali language.
