It's customary for newly wedded wives to get back home at this time
when the summer goes off and at the onset of rainy season. Also women
does nt go alone without men with them. Today it's other way
around,that men does nt go alone but women does... lol ;)
And ShriRadhe,the Queen of Vraja was also eager to get back home and
see the dark complexioned One. But her in-law Jatila was not willing
to send her back home. She insisted there were lot of house hold work
to do and will not send Sri Radha. Shri Radhe waits for 1,2...3days
but no one(male member of the family) came to pick her back home.
Somehow the message reaches her father Vrishabanu.

And he sends Sri Dham to get Shri Radhe back home. It's customary to
send food items to the bride-groom's house when getting the bride back
home. So Jatila was pleased by providing the food items. But Jatila
warned Shri Radhe not to mingle with that dark complexioned One.

Shri Radhe when back home was in the garden swinging with other gopis.
Swinging is also very common during this time as it brings so much
breeze when going back and forth at this sultry season.
This news somehow reaches Krishna and He having adorned Himself like a
Gopi, in guise of a girl, comes to the Garden where Shri Radhe is
swinging.
He pushes the swing so heavily that Shri Radhe went extremely high as
the ropes are so lengthy unlike our swings here. And She gets
frightened and out of fear she hugs the gopi next to her who is none
other than the dark complexioned One.
This way Krishna likes to hug Shri Radhe most of the times but Shri
Radhe somehow manages to escape due to the customs.
This pastime happens in the whole of Vrindavan dham all the time
everyday and the other gopis take pleasure in serving the divine
couple in Their intimate pastimes. This day, the appearance day of
Lord Balaram marks the end of the jhulan pastimes of divine couple Sri
Radha Krishna. The Lordships are very happy to see us pulling Them in
Their swing.Most people think that Rama in the Hare Krishna mantra
means Lord Ramachandra but He is Lord BalaRam. Krishna is so stubborn
and hard like Himalayan mountain. He can never be shaken but Shri
Radhe by Her Love breaks Him like anything. It's the mysticism of the
Bhakti tradition that we can even shake the One who is shaking all of
us by our Devotional Service of swinging Them. I feel so hard and
unqualified to pull Them as there's so much contamination in the heart
that I could not afford to invite Them to reside in my heart. Pulling
Them also means that we are trying to pull Them to our heart. How can
They come into a dirty place such as my heart which is full of lust,
greed, pride, anger, envy, madness???
-Excerpt from Lecture on appearance day of Lord Balaram by HG.Sumithra
Krishna Prabhu + my own feelings in the end.

--
Yours
Dinesh

Lord BalaRam Appearance day Maha Utsav!