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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 10, Ch. 3]
of Godhead, Viṣṇu;  devakyām —in the womb of Devakī;  deva-rūpiṇyām —who was in the same category as the Supreme Personality of Godhead ( ānanda-cinmaya-rasa-pratibhāvitābhiḥ );  viṣṇuḥ —Lord Viṣṇu, the Supreme Lord;  sarva-guhā-śayaḥ —who is situated in the core of everyone's heart;  āvirāsīt —appeared;  yathā —as;  prācyām diśi —in the east;  induḥ iva —like the full moon;  puṣkalaḥ —complete in every respect.
TRANSLATION
The demigods and great saintly persons showered flowers in a joyous mood, and clouds gathered in the sky and very mildly thundered, making sounds like those of the ocean's waves. Then the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, who is situated in the core of everyone's heart, appeared from the heart of Devakī in the dense darkness of night, like the full moon rising on the eastern horizon, because Devakī was of the same category as Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
PURPORT
As stated in the  Brahma-saṁhitā  (5.37):
ānanda-cinmaya-rasa-pratibhāvitābhiṣ tābhir ya eva nija-rūpatayā kalābhiḥ goloka eva nivasaty akhilātma-bhūto govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
This verse indicates that Kṛṣṇa and His entourage are of the same spiritual potency ( ānanda-cinmaya-rasa ). Kṛṣṇa's father, His mother, His friends the cowherd boys, and the cows are all expansions of Kṛṣṇa, as will be explained in the  brahma-vimohana-līlā . When Brahmā took away Kṛṣṇa's associates to test the supremacy of Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Lord expanded Himself again in the forms of the many cowherd boys and calves, all of whom, as Brahmā saw, were  viṣṇu-mūrtis . Devakī is also an expansion of Kṛṣṇa, and therefore this verse says,  devakyāṁ deva-rūpiṇyāṁ viṣṇuḥ sarva-guhā-śayaḥ .
At the time for the Lord's appearance, the great sages and the demigods, being pleased, began to shower flowers. At the seashore, there