How exactly was Balaramji born? How much is the age difference between him and Krishna?
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question how exactly was Balaramji born how much is the age difference between him and Krishna answer the age difference is just 7 days as we can see from the Balaram Jayanti coming just a week before, then Nashtami however, the appearance of Balaramji happened in quite a extraordinary way basically the 7th pregnancy of Devaki happened at more or less the same time as the 7th pregnancy of Rohini initially Kamsa had kept Vasudev and Devaki, was not in prison but in house arrest and he at that time when Rohini became pregnant then Kamsa was especially vigilant about Devaki but Vasudev fearing for even the safety of Rohini sent her on a horse not on a chariot because that would have brought too much attention, discreetly on a horse to Nanda Maharaj’s place in Vrindavan and when both in the 7th pregnancy of Devaki and in the pregnancy of Rohini, both were about 7 months into the pregnancy, then at that time Yogamaya arranged for Krishna or rather Yogamaya arranged through the direction of Krishna to have Devaki’s pregnancy transferred to Rohini’s, so to the worldly eye Devaki had a miscarriage and Rohini’s earlier pregnancy was made unmanifest by Yogamaya so that the embryo in the womb of Rohini was now the embryo that had earlier been in the womb of Devaki and then Yogamaya also arranged further for Rohini’s pregnancy to be delayed so her pregnancy was delayed for further 7 months and in the meanwhile, because Vasudev and Devaki were eager for getting the 8th child who would free them from their persecutions so soon, within a very short time Devaki became pregnant again and then Devaki’s pregnancy was a little, or delivery was a little earlier than expected so Kamsa was expecting it but around in the 7th month end, 8th month early, Devaki gave delivery to Krishna she delivered Krishna, so just before, a week before that in Vrindavan, Rohini had given birth to Balramji this is how although both Krishna and Balram were born in the same womb of Devaki and so naturally there had to be at least a substantial difference of several months but because Rohini had become pregnant at the same time as Devaki and so that nobody became suspicious of how there was an embryo in the womb of Rohini when she had been in Vasudev’s, not in Vasudev’s place for almost 14-15 months and also that by delaying the pregnancy of Rohini Yogamaya arranged that Krishna and Balram because they have Sakhyarasa in which Balramji is the older brother but he is not so much older, slightly older, so this was only one week older and that’s how he was arranged by delaying the pregnancy of Rohini to be of nearly the same age of Krishna just slightly, so this is pointed to by Lajiv Goswami in his Gopal Champu where he explains the mystery of these two births, thank you