Text 29]
The Atrocities of King Kaṁsa
303
TRANSLATION
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: Thus having been addressed in purity by Devakī and Vasudeva, who were very much appeased, Kaṁsa felt pleased, and with their permission he entered his home.
TEXT 29
तस्यां रात्र्यां व्यतीतायां कंस आहूय मन्त्रिणः । तेभ्य आचष्ट तत् सर्वं यदुक्तं योगनिद्रया ॥२९॥
tasyām rātryām vyatītāyām kaṁsa āhūya mantriṇaḥ tebhya ācaṣṭa tat sarvaṁ yad uktaṁ yoga-nidrayā
tasyām—that; rātryām—night; vyatītāyām—having passed; kaṁsaḥ—King Kaṁsa; āhūya—calling for; mantriṇaḥ—all the ministers; tebhyaḥ—them; ācaṣṭa—informed; tat—that; sarvaṁ—all; yat uktaṁ—which was spoken (that Kaṁsa's murderer was already somewhere else); yoga-nidrayā—by Yogamāyā, the goddess Durgā.
TRANSLATION
After that night passed, Kaṁsa summoned his ministers and informed them of all that had been spoken by Yogamāyā [who had revealed that He who was to slay Kaṁsa had already been born somewhere else].
PURPORT
The Vedic scripture  Caṇḍī  describes  māyā , the energy of the Supreme Lord, as  nidrā :  durgā devī sarva-bhūteṣu nidrā-rūpeṇa samāsthitaḥ . The energy of Yogamāyā and Mahāmāyā keeps the living entities sleeping in this material world in the great darkness of ignorance. Yogamāyā, the goddess Durgā, kept Kaṁsa in darkness about Kṛṣṇa's birth and misled him to believe that his enemy Kṛṣṇa had been born elsewhere. Kṛṣṇa was born the son of Devakī, but according to the Lord's original plan, as