Why did Balaram favor Duryodhana?
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Why did Balram favour Duryodhana? Actually they just like there is a Maushya Leela where Krishna enjoys fighting so now who can fight with God so there are his devotees who take the role of demons and then they fight so that is at a very gross level where that person is openly becoming demoniac if you look at a more intimate level in Vrindavan Leela there is Jatila and Kutila now they are the mother-in-law and the sister-in-law of Yadharani when she is apparently married to Abhimanyu and they create obstacles in Krishna’s pastimes in Krishna’s meeting with Radharani now they are also devotional they are also devotees nobody in the spiritual world is not a devotee but they are given that role and they take up that role for the sake of enhancing the excitement and the drama in Krishna’s pastimes so similarly at an intermediate level between the two in Vrindavan it’s all devotees coming together Radharani is a devotee everyone else is a devotee but with Balram sometimes favours someone whom Krishna does not favour and by that the drama in Krishna’s pastime increases so Balram’s devotion is seen in his ultimate deference when Krishna insists on something he accepts it he does not insist he may take a position which is opposed to Krishna but he doesn’t insist on that position ultimately he defers to Krishna, that shows his devotion but by Krishna’s will ultimately in order to increase the drama in Krishna’s pastimes, Balram sometimes takes a role which is which seems to be opposed to Krishna’s does it answer the question? just another question we see that Prabhupada encouraged a very heavily transcendental composition Sankirtana newsletter and different things and you know it strikes me that many devotees kind of took that in the wrong way and kind of fuelled material competition I’m wondering if you could give an analysis of that, maybe time, place and circumstance trying to transfer distribution and also competition we still experience this between GBC zones between GBCs this is a you know kind of downward phenomenon kind of spoken about this specific thought comes to mind so