LORD KRISHNA BIRTH DETAIL
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Krishna was Born to Devaki and her husband, Vasudeva When Mother Earth became
upset by the sin being committed on Earth, she thought of seeking help from
Lord Vishnu. She went in the form of a cow to visit Lord Vishnu and ask for
help. Lord Vishnu agreed to help her and promised her that he would be born on
Earth. On Earth in the Yadava clan, he was yadav according to his birth, a
prince named Kansa sent his father Ugrasena (King of Mathura) to prison and
became the King himself. One day a loud voice from the sky (Akash Vani in
Hindi) prophesied that the 8th son of Kansa's sister (Devaki) would kill Kansa.
Thus, Kansa sent his sister and her husband (Vasudeva) to prison. Lord Vishnu
himself later appeared to Devaki and Vasudeva and told them that he himself
would be their eighth son and kill Kansa and destroy sin in the world. In the
story of Krishna the deity is the agent of conception and also the offspring. Because
of his sympathy for the earth, the divine Vishnu himself descended into the
womb of Devaki and was born as her son, Vaasudeva
(i.e., Krishna). This is occasionally cited as evidence that "virgin
birth" tales are fairly common in non-Christian religions around the world.
However, there is nothing in Hindu scriptures to suggest that it was a "virgin"
birth. By the time of conception and birth of Krishna, Devaki was married to Vasudeva and had already borne 7 children. Virgin birth in this case should be
more accurately understood as divine conception. Kunti the mother of the
Pandavas referenced contemporaneously with the story of Krishna in the
Mahabharata also has divine conception and virgin birth of Prince Karna.
Krishna belonged to the Vrishni clan of Yadavas from Mathura, and was the eighth son born
to the princess Devaki, and her
husband Vasudeva.
The Hindu Vishnu Purana
relates: "Devaki bore in her womb the lotus-eyed deity...before the birth
of Krishna, no one could bear to gaze upon Devaki, from the light that invested
her, and those who contemplated her radiance felt their minds disturbed.” This
reference to light is reminiscent of the Vedic hymn "To an Unknown
Divine," which refers to a Golden Child. According to F. M. Müller, this
term means "the golden gem of child" and is an attempt at naming the sun.
According to the Vishnu Purana, Krishna is the total incarnation of Lord
Vishnu. It clearly describes in the Vishnu Purana that Krishna was born on
earth to destroy sin, especially Kansa.
Mathura
(in present day Mathura district, Uttar Pradesh) was the capital of the Yadavas, to which Krishna's parents
Vasudeva and Devaki belonged. King Kansa,
Devaki's brother, had ascended
the throne by imprisoning his father, King Ugrasena.
Afraid of a prophecy from a divine voice from the heavens
that predicted his death at the hands of Devaki's
eighth "garbha", Kansa had the couple locked in a prison cell. After Kansa killed the
first six children, Devaki apparently had a miscarriage of the seventh.
However, in reality, the womb was actually transferred to Rohini secretly. This
was how Balarama, Krishna's elder
brother, was born. Once again Devaki became pregnant. Now due to the
miscarriage, Kansa was in a puzzle regarding 'The Eighth One', but his
ministers advised that the divine voice from the heavens emphasised "the
eight garbha" and so this is the one. That night Krishna was born in the
Rohini nakshatra and simultaneously the goddess Durga
was born as Yogamaya in Gokulam to Nanda and Yashoda.
Since
Vasudeva knew Krishna's life was in danger, Krishna was secretly taken out of
the prison cell to be raised by his foster parents, Yasoda and Nanda,
in Gokula (in present day Mathura district). Two of his other
siblings also survived, Balarama (Devaki's seventh child, transferred
to the womb of Rohini, Vasudeva's
first wife) and Subhadra (daughter of Vasudeva and Rohini, born
much later than Balarama and Krishna).
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