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Posted: 11 years ago
The Lord God, Vishnu Narayana, called Mahamaya again. "Here is an embryo of Sesha," He said, conjuring the silver life around the white hair He plucked from his head. "Leave him in Devaki's womb tonight. But in six weeks remove him again and they will say the mother has miscarried. Then place him in Rohini's womb in Gokula." Krishna's elder brother Balarama will be born from Vasudeva's first wife Rohini.

Even Kamsa is pleased his cousin has aborted. He won't have to stain his hands with another infant's blood. But is he at his peephole when the Goddess Maya removes Balarama from Devaki's womb? No. For this is the night Devaki conceives again and becomes luminously pregnant with Krishna. That is why when he is born , they think it isn't time for his mother to have another child.

Mahamaya herself enters Yasodha's womb across the Yamuna - the birth of God deserves some fanfare, surely.

The seasons sparkle, says Suka, when Vishnu enters Devaki as a holy child. Gandharvas sing in the spirit realms. Apsaras dance in the sky on insubstantial feet. Vasudeva finds it hard to look at her; in terror, Kamsa has his peephole sealed. Devaki glows in the dark; the night lights up with her. Why, it seems the world is lit with the flame growing in this woman. All Kamsa's soldiers want to stand guard outside Devaki's prison!

Menon, Ramesh (2013-01-14). KRISHNA (Kindle Locations 450-463). . Kindle Edition.

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Posted: 11 years ago
I cried yesterday in happiness seeing the last part. What a blessed soul Devaki and Vasudeva are. Her suffering in the path of duty finally bearing the fruit. When she tells I am alive only to give birth to this 8th son and if something happens to him I will die. Her despair, her anguish on seeing her 6 new borns murdered everything comes to fore.
Vasudeva says he will follow suit as he too cannot survive another murder.
And then like the rain falls on the dry land the first they show the aligment of Rohini star and then the Lord himself comes in front of them.
The dialogue " Lord Vishnu who blesses the whole world is today asking your blessings. Accept me as your son" it was a beauty. The jyothi that goes in Devaki's womb assuring her , her sacrifice has not been in vain and then the smiling baby boy in her lap. It was a scene enough to send any mother into joyous ectasty.
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Posted: 11 years ago
I just loved vishnu ji dialog "sansar ko aashirwad dene wala vishnu aple aarshirwad ki ichchha rakhta h mata"
idk why but vishnu ji (be him any any avatar though krishna avatar is my fav) always mesmerizes me, I always look upto him like a kid watching a magic show
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Posted: 11 years ago
can u guys recommend me some books on krishna life,philosophy and adventures? if its in hindi then that's best. but eng bhi chalegi
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Posted: 11 years ago

Originally posted by: srishtisingh

can u guys recommend me some books on krishna life,philosophy and adventures? if its in hindi then that's best. but eng bhi chalegi

You can start by reading Srimad Bhagavatam Tenth Canto here: http://vedabase.net/sb/10/en
This is the book on Krishna's avatara. Although, since it is a Purana, it will be filled with too many details. So you can read Srila Prabhupada's KRSNA here: http://vedabase.com/en/kb
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Posted: 11 years ago
If you love fiction " Krishna Key" is a good choice
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Posted: 11 years ago
In Hindi, Munshi's krishnavatar series that starts with bansi ki dhun. Also narendra kohli's stuff.
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Posted: 11 years ago
And you can also try the Lalita Madhava and Vidagdha Madhava of Rupa Goswami. They are about 100 pages each. Download them here: Sri Lalita-Madhava (Playful Krsna) (RTF)
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Posted: 11 years ago
Found an interesting part here.
http://www.indiadivine.org/content/topic/982745-yoga-maya-maha-maya-subhadra-durga/

The Yogamaya is the principal potency of the Personality of Godhead. In the Vedas it is stated that the Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, has multipotencies. Parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate. All the different potencies are acting externally and internally, and Yogamaya is the chief of all potencies. He ordered the appearance of Yogamaya in the land of Vrajabhumi, in Vrndavana, which is always decorated and full with beautiful cows.
__ Krishna Book Chp2 {Prayers by the Demigods for Lord Krsna in the Womb}

Same Chapter:

"Since you will appear as My contemporary sister, people within the world will worship you with all kinds of valuable presentations: incense, candles, flowers and offerings of sacrifice. You shall quickly satisfy their desires for sense gratificiation. People who are after materialistic affection will worship you under the different forms of your expansions, which will be named Durga, Bhadrakali, Vijaya, Vaisnavi, Kumuda, Candika, Krsna, Madhavi, Kanyaka, Maya, Narayani, Isani, Sarada and Ambika."

Krsna and Yogamaya appeared as brother and sister--the Supreme Powerful and the supreme power. Although there is no clear distinction between the Powerful and the power, power is always subordinate to the Powerful. Those who are materialistic are worshipers of the power, but those who are transcendentalists are worshipers of the Powerful. Krsna is the Supreme Powerful, and Durga is the supreme power within the material world. Actually people in the Vedic culture worship both the Powerful and the power. There are many hundreds of thousands of temples of Visnu and Devi, and sometimes they are worshiped simultaneously. The worshiper of the power, Durga, or the external energy of Krsna, may achieve all kinds of material success very easily, but anyone who wants to be elevated transcendentally must engage in worshiping the Powerful in Krsna consciousness



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Subhadra is yogamaya. The spiritual energy is called yogamaya. And she has 16 different expansions. Out of these 16 expansions, Subhadra is one. The mahamaya of the material energy is also expansion of the energy of yogamaya; and both yogamaya and mahamaya are equally important to Krishna as much as any government department is equally important for functioning of the government. The police department may be horrible for the criminals, but to the government it is a department as good as university department. Similarly, mahamaya is horrible to the conditioned soul, but to the liberated soul, there is no fear of mahamaya, because he is protected by yogamaya. It is stated in the Bhagavad-gita when Krishna said the following: ''I am not visible to everyone on account of being curtained by yogamaya.'' So when a conditioned soul surrenders unto Krishna, the yogamaya winds up the curtain and Krishna is visible to the devotee.


Regarding your question about Subhadra and Durga, they are not at all the same. Durga's other name is Bhadra, not Subhadra, and Durga's activities are within the material world. Subhadra does not work as Durga. Subhadra is internal energy, and Durga is external energy. As energy, they have a relationship as much as we are energies of Krishna, but the energies are working in different capacities. Although originally the energy is one, by their expansion, the accents of the energies are different, and as we are not impersonalists, this variegatedness of actions are essential for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as much as the government is one but there are multi-departments for management of the government. The education department and the criminal department are all departments of the government. The government is connected with all parts and departments, but the education activities are different from the criminal activities. This is the philosophy of inconceivably simultaneously one and different manifestations of the Absolute Truth.
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Posted: 11 years ago
Minaxi thanks for sharing this 🤗
much needed information
Read this in this forum not sure where but want to share if any one posted this before here thanks

In some traditions, Yashoda's daughter who Kansa tries to kill is reborn later as Devaki's youngest child, Subhadra. In other traditions, she is reborn as Draupadi. Both Subhadra and Draupadi marry Arjuna. Arjuna and Krishna are said to be Nara and Narayana, two ancient Rishis, both incarnations of Vishnu. Both Subhadra and Draupadi are thus in some way connected to the Goddess.

Pattanaik, Devdutt (2010-08-16). Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata (pp. 97-98). Penguin Books Ltd. Kindle Edition.

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