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should be plundered and all their riches taken away. Nanda Mahārāja should immediately be arrested and killed for his cunning behavior, and the rascal Vasudeva should also be killed without delay. Also my father, Ugrasena, who has always supported my enemies against my will, should be killed.”
When Kamsa spoke in this way, Lord Krṣṇa became very angry with him, and within a second He jumped over the high guards of King Kamsa. Kamsa was prepared for Krṣṇa’s attack, for he knew from the beginning that He was to be the cause of his death. He immediately unsheathed his sword and prepared to answer the challenge of Krṣṇa with sword and shield. As Kamsa wielded his sword up and down, hither and thither, Lord Krṣṇa, the supreme powerful Lord, caught hold of him with great force. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the shelter of the complete creation and from whose lotus navel the whole creation is manifested, immediately knocked the crown from the head of Kamsa and grabbed his long hair in His hand. He then dragged Kamsa from his seat to the wrestling dias and threw him down. Then Krṣṇa at once straddled his chest and began to strike him over and over again. Simply from the strokes of His fist, Kamsa lost his vital force.
In order to assure His parents that Kamsa was dead, Lord Krṣṇa dragged him just as a lion drags an elephant after killing it. On sight of this, there was a great roaring sound from all sides, as some spectators expressed their jubilation and others cried in lamentation. From the day Kamsa heard that he would be killed by the eighth son of Devakī, he was always thinking of Krṣṇa twenty-four hours a day without any stoppage—even while he was eating, while he was walking, while he was breathing—and naturally he got the blessing of liberation. In the  Bhagavad-gītā  it is stated,  sadā tad-bhāva-bhāvitaḥ : a person gets his next life according to the thoughts in which he is always absorbed. Kamsa was thinking of Krṣṇa with His wheel, which means Nārāyaṇa who holds a wheel, conchshell, lotus flower and club.
According to the opinion of authorities, Kamsa attained  sārūpya-mukti  after death, that is to say he attained the same form as Nārāyaṇa (Viṣṇu). On the Vaikuṇṭha planets all the inhabitants have the same bodily features as Nārāyaṇa. After his death, Kamsa attained liberation and was promoted to Vaikuṇṭhaloka. From this instance we can understand that even a person who thinks of the Supreme Personality of Godhead as an enemy gets liberation and a place in a Vaikuṇṭha planet, so what to speak of the pure devotees who are always absorbed in favorable thoughts of Krṣṇa? Even an enemy who is killed by Krṣṇa gets liberation and is placed in the