Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.4.29

tasyāḿ rātryāḿ vyatītāyāḿ

kaḿsa āhūya mantriṇaḥ

tebhya ācaṣṭa tat sarvaḿ

yad uktaḿ yoga-nidrayā

SYNONYMS

tasyām — that; rātryām — night; vyatītāyām — having passed; kaḿsaḥ — King Kaḿsa; āhūya — calling for; mantriṇaḥ — all the ministers; tebhyaḥ — them; ācaṣṭa — informed; tat — that; sarvam — all; yat uktam — which was spoken (that Kaḿsa's murderer was already somewhere else); yoga-nidrayā — by Yogamāyā, the goddess Durgā.

TRANSLATION

After that night passed, Kaḿsa summoned his ministers and informed them of all that had been spoken by Yogamāyā [who had revealed that He who was to slay Kaḿsa had already been born somewhere else].

PURPORT

The Vedic scripture Caṇḍī describes māyā, the energy of the Supreme Lord, as nidrā: durgā devī sarva-bhūteṣu nidrā-rūpeṇa samāsthitaḥ. The energy of Yogamāyā and Mahāmāyā keeps the living entities sleeping in this material world in the great darkness of ignorance. Yogamāyā, the goddess Durgā, kept Kaḿsa in darkness about Kṛṣṇa's birth and misled him to believe that his enemy Kṛṣṇa had been born elsewhere. Kṛṣṇa was born the son of Devakī, but according to the Lord's original plan, as prophesied to Brahmā, He went to Vṛndāvana to give pleasure to mother Yaśodā and Nanda Mahārāja and other intimate friends and devotees for eleven years. Then He would return to kill Kaḿsa. Because Kaḿsa did not know this, he believed Yogamāyā's statement that Kṛṣṇa was born elsewhere, not of Devakī.

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