Story of Krishna and Vishnumaya

Devaki gave birth to her Krishna,their 8 th child, vasudev was asked to go to Gokula and swap the child with Nanda’s new born. But both of them were chained for Kamsa and he increased the number of guards.

Vasudev reached Gokula and entered Nanda’s house. He placed his son there and picked the girl born for Nanda and his wife. The whole Gokula was asleep at that time. Nobody knows the things happened there. He placed the girl near Devaki. The cries of new born baby woke up the guards. Kamsa rushed into the prison and took away the child. Devaki cried and told him a girl child will not harm him and killing a girl is considered to be sinful in ancient scriptures. But Kamsa didn’t listened her words. He grabbed the child and tried to dash her against the stone.

But suddenly the child flew from Kamsa’s hand and changed the form as Devi. This form of Devi id referred as vishnumaya.  She was with several jewels, weapons, flowers etc. She cautioned him about his sinful habit of killing innocent people. Words of Vishnumaya made strange effect on Kamsa. He felt ashamed of treating his sister and brother in law the way he did. He pleaded guilty of all the sins and asked forgiveness.