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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 10, Ch. 1]
“The bewildered spirit soul, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, thinks himself to be the doer of activities which are in actuality carried out by nature.” (Bg. 3.27) Within conditioned life, no one has freedom, but because one is bewildered, being subject to the rule of  mahāmāyā , one foolishly thinks himself independent ( ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā kartāham iti manyate ). But when the conditioned soul becomes liberated by executing devotional service, he is given a greater and greater chance to relish a relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead in different transcendental statuses, such as  dāsya-rasa ,  sakhya-rasa ,  vātsalya-rasa  and  mādhurya-rasa .
Thus the Lord’s potency,  viṣṇu-māyā , has two features— āvaraṇikā  and  unmukha . When the Lord appeared, His potency came with Him and acted in different ways. She acted as  yogamāyā  with Yaśodā, Devakī and other intimate relations of the Lord, and she acted in a different way with Kaṁsa, Śālva and other  asuras . By the order of Lord Kṛṣṇa, His potency  yogamāyā  came with Him and exhibited different activities according to the time and circumstances.  Kāryārthe sambhaviṣyati .  Yogamāyā  acted differently to execute different purposes desired by the Lord. As confirmed in  Bhagavad-gītā  (9.13),  mahātmānas tu māṁ pārtha daivīṁ prakṛtim āśritāḥ . The  mahātmās , who fully surrender to the lotus feet of the Lord, are directed by  yogamāyā , whereas the  durātmās , those who are devoid of devotional service, are directed by  mahāmāyā .
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श्रीशुक उवाच
इत्यादिश्यामरगणान् प्रजापतिपतिर्विभुः । आश्वास्य च महीं गीर्मिः स्वधाम परमं ययौ ॥२६॥
śrī-śuka uvāca ity ādiśyāmara-gaṇān prajāpati-patir vibhuḥ āśvāsya ca mahīṁ gīrbhiḥ sva-dhāma paramaṁ yayau
śrī-śukaḥ uvāca—Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said; iti—thus; ādiśya—after informing; amara-gaṇān—all the demigods; prajāpati-patiḥ—