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Krṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
Kamsa would kill Him. At that time, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krṣṇa, being compassionate upon the fearful condition of the Yadus, due to atrocities committed by Kamsa, ordered the appearance of His  Yogamāyā , or His internal potency. Krṣṇa is the Lord of the universe, but He is especially the Lord of the Yadu dynasty.
This  Yogamāyā  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.  Parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate . All the different potencies are acting externally and internally, and  Yogamāyā  is the chief of all potencies. He ordered the appearance of  Yogamāyā  in the land of Vrajabhūmi, in Vṛndāvana, which is always decorated and full with beautiful cows. In Vṛndāvana, Rohiṇī, one of the wives of Vasudeva, was residing at the house of King Nanda and Queen Yaśodā. Not only Rohiṇī, but many others in the Yadu dynasty were scattered all over the country due to their fear of the atrocities of Kamsa. Some of them were even living in the caves of the mountains.
The Lord thus informed  Yogamāyā : “Under the imprisonment of Kamsa are Devakī and Vasudeva, and at the present moment, My plenary expansion, Śeṣa, is within the womb of Devakī. You can arrange the transfer of Śeṣa from the womb of Devakī to the womb of Rohiṇī. After this arrangement, I am personally going to appear in the womb of Devakī with My full potencies. Then I shall appear as the son of Devakī and Vasudeva. And you shall appear as the daughter of Nanda and Yaśodā in Vṛndāvana.
“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 gratification. People who are after materialistic affection will worship you under the different forms of your expansions, which will be named Durgā, Bhadrakālī, Vijayā, Vaiṣṇavī, Kumudā, Caṇḍikā, Krṣṇā, Mādhavī, Kanyakā, Māyā, Nārāyaṇī, Iśāṇī, Śāradā and Ambikā.”
Krṣṇa and  Yogamāyā  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 worshippers of the power, but those who are transcendentalists are worshippers of the Powerful. Krṣṇa is the Supreme Powerful, and Durgā 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 Viṣṇu and Devī, and sometimes they are worshipped simultaneously. The wor-