Brahma Vaivarta Purana Chapter 7:101-110

Brahma Vaivarta Purana

Sri Krsna-janma-khanda

The Birth of Lord Krsna

Chapter 7: Verse 101-110

ENGLISH TRANSLATION 101.Thinking of Me either as your son or as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, you will attain Me. O wise one, you will be liberated even in this life. 102.O father, take me at once to Yasoda’s home in Vraja. Leave Me there and put Goddess Maya in My place. 103.After speaking these words, Lord Krsna assumed the form of a newborn infant. Vasudeva gazed at his sleeping, dark, infant son, on the ground before him. 104.-105.Vasudeva said, “What happened when I looked at this child? Was I bewildered by Lord Visnu’s illusory potency? Did I, overcome with exhaustion, see a dream in this maternity room?” Vasudeva and his wife gazed at the infant in their lap. Then Vasudeva took the infant to Nanda’s Gokula. 106.Vasudeva quickly went to Nanda’s Vraja, entered the maternity room there, and saw that Yasoda was asleep on her bed, Nanda was asleep, and everyone in the house was also asleep. 107.He saw a gently smiling infant girl, naked and gazing at the housetop. 108.When he saw the infant girl, Vasudeva became filled with wonder. 109.Taking the girl with him, and leaving his son in her place, he quickly returned to his wife’s maternity room in Mathura. 110.There he placed the infant girl, who was the goddess Maha-maya. When she saw the girl cry again and again, Devaki became afraid.