A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness

His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896-1977) is widely regarded as the foremost Vedic scholar, translator, and teacher of the modern era. He is especially respected as the world's most prominent contemporary authority on bhakti-yoga, devotional service to the Supreme Person, Krishna, as taught by the ancient Vedic writings of India. He is also the founder-acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.

Sri Krishna-Balaram Temple is a Gaudiya Vaishnava temple in the holy city of Vrindavan

Sri Krishna-Balaram Mandir is a Gaudiya Vaishnava

temple in the holy city of

Vrindavan.

 

It is one of the main ISKCON temples in India and internationally

 

Balarama, the elder brother of Srikrishna was one
of the ten incarnations of Vishnu as stated by
Bhagabat and other Puranas. His father was
Vasudeva of Yadu clan but he had two mothers
Devaki and Rohini. Maharaja Kamsa, the king
of Mathura killed all the six issues of his sister
Devaki as one of her sons was to kill him
according to some forecast. So Goddess
Yogamaya had made some miracle for her seventh
issue, while Devaki was pregnant. Yogamaya
extracted the foetus from the uterus of Devaki
while she was eight months pregnant and placed
it inside the uterus of Rohini. Rohini at that time
hide herself in Nanda's house at Gopa for the fear
of demon Kamsa.