Lord Balarama’s appearance. Today is also the anniversary of the Brahma Vimohana-lila, as I remember it. Not sure where this comes from, but I heard that Lord Balarama was not present when the cowherd boys were stolen (and hence wondered when he saw the effects on their parents of Krishna’s expanding Himself into their forms) because he was held home due to His birthday.

Here is something that arrived in my inbox this morning. Good advice:

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won’t succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.

- Wayne Dwyer

All glories to the lotus feet of Sri Nityananda-Rama.