Text 31]
The Birth of Lord Krṣṇa
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body and is held there without difficulty. But now this transcendental form has taken birth from my womb. People will not be able to believe this, and I shall become an object of ridicule.
PURPORT
As explained in  Caitanya-caritāmṛta , loving service to the Personality of Godhead is of two different kinds:  aiśvarya-pūrṇa , full of opulence, and  aiśvarya-śīthila , without opulence. Real love of Godhead begins with  aiśvarya-śīthila , simply on the basis of pure love.
premāñjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena santaḥ sadaiva hṛdayeṣu vilokayanti yaṁ śyāmasundaram acintya-guṇa-svarūpaṁ govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi (Brahma-saṁhitā 5.38)
Pure devotees, whose eyes are anointed with the ointment of  premā , love, want to see the Supreme Personality of Godhead as Śyāmasundara, Muralīdhara, with a flute swaying in His two hands. This is the form available to the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana, who are all in love with the Supreme Personality of Godhead as Śyāmasundara, not as Lord Viṣṇu, Nārāyaṇa, who is worshiped in Vaikuṇṭha, where the devotees admire His opulence. Although Devakī is not on the Vṛndāvana platform, she is near the Vṛndāvana platform. On the Vṛndāvana platform the mother of Krṣṇa is mother Yaśodā, and on the Mathurā and Dvārakā platform the mother of Krṣṇa is Devakī. In Mathurā and Dvārakā the love for the Lord is mixed with appreciation of His opulence, but in Vṛndāvana the opulence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is not exhibited.
There are five stages of loving service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead— śānta ,  dāsya ,  sakhya ,  vātsalya  and  mādhurya . Devakī is on the platform of  vātsalya . She wanted to deal with her eternal son, Krṣṇa, in that stage of love, and therefore she wanted the Supreme Personality of Godhead to withdraw His opulent form of Viṣṇu. Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Thākura illuminates this fact very clearly in his explanation of this verse.
Bhakti, bhagavān  and  bhakta  do not belong to the material world. This is confirmed in  Bhagavad-gītā  (14.26):