Question: Can we apply varnas to devotees, in what cases and how important are varnas for devotees? When a devotee serves the deities in the temple, doing different kinds of services, can we say he is doing services in a particular varna?

Jayapataka Swami: Vaisnavas engage in different services for Krsna. So, they are considered on the transcendental level. Externally, if one is doing deity worship or teaching or preaching, they are doing the activities of a brahmana. If they are managing or defending...

Question: Lord Balarama seemed to be more merciful to Duryodana, accepting him as His disciple, and He wanted Subadra to be married to Duryodana. And also did not approve of the way Bhima killed Duryodana. While Lord Krsna was always siding Pandavas. How to understand these apparent differences between the Lords?

Jayapataka Swami: Correction in the question that it was Duryodana’s son that wanted to marry Subadra. Since this was an interfamily dispute, they were all in the same family. So Lord Krsna had some relations with all of them. That means Balarama also had. So He...