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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.2.15
SYNONYMS
garbhe — when the embryo; pranīte — was carried from the womb; devakyāh — of Devakī; rohinīm — to the womb of Rohinī; yoga-nidrayā — by the spiritual energy called Yogamāyā; aho — alas; visramsitah — is lost; garbhah — the embryo; iti — thus; paurāh — all the inhabitants of the house; vicukruśuh — lamented.
TRANSLATION
When the child of Devakī was attracted and transferred into the womb of Rohinī by Yogamāyā, Devakī seemed to have a miscarriage. Thus all the inhabitants of the palace loudly lamented, "Alas, Devakī has lost her child!"
PURPORT
"All the inhabitants of the palace" includes Kamsa. When everyone lamented, Kamsa joined in compassion, thinking that perhaps because of drugs or some other external means, Devakī had undergone this abortion. The real story of what happened after Yogamāyā attracted the child of Devakī into the womb of Rohinī in the seventh month of Rohinī's pregnancy is described as follows in the Hari-vamśa. At midnight, while Rohinī was deeply sleeping, she experienced, as if in a dream, that she had undergone a miscarriage. After some time, when she awoke, she saw that this had indeed happened, and she was in great anxiety. But Yogamāyā then informed her, "O auspicious lady, your child is now being replaced. I am attracting a child from the womb of Devakī, and therefore your child will be known as Sańkarshana."
The word yoga-nidrā is significant. When one is spiritually reconnected through self-realization, one regards his material life as having been like a dream. As stated in Bhagavad-gītā (2.69):
"What is night for all beings is the time of awakening for the self-controlled; and the time of awakening for all beings is night for the introspective sage." The stage of self-realization is called yoga-nidrā. All material activities appear to be a dream when one is spiritually awakened. Thus yoga-nidrā may be explained to be Yogamāyā.
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