10 Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

Kamsa would kill Him. At that time, the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
Krsna, being compassionate upon the fearful condition of the Yadus, due
to atrocities committed by Kamsa, ordered the appearance of His
Yogamaya, or His internal potency. Krsna is the Lord of the universe, but
He is especially the Lord of the Yadu dynasty.

This Yogamaya is the principal potency of the Personality of Godhead.
In the Vedas it is stated that the Lord, the Supreme Personality of God-
head, has multipotencies. Parasya saktir vividhaiva sriiyate. All the dif-
ferent potencies are acting externally and internally, and Yogamaye is the
chief of all potencies. He ordered the appearance of Yogamaya in the land
of Vrajabhimi, in Vrndavana, which is always decorated and full with
beautiful cows. In Vrndavana, Rohini, one of the wives of Vasudeva, was
residing at the house of King Nanda and Queen Yaégoda. Not only Rohini,
but many others in the Yadu dynasty were scattered all over the country
due to their fear of the atrocities of Kamsa. Some of them were even
living in the caves of the mountains.

The Lord thus informed Yogamaya: “Under the imprisonment of
Kamsa are Devaki and Vasudeva, and at the present moment, My plenary
expansion, Sesa, is within the womb of Devaki. You can arrange the
transfer of Sega from the womb of Devaki to the womb of Rohini. After
this arrangement, I am personally going to appear in the womb of Devaki
with My full potencies. Then I shall appear as the son of Devaki and
Vasudeva. And you shall appear as the daughter of Nanda and Yaégoda in
Vrndavana.

“Since you will appear as My contemporary sister, people within the
world will worship you with all kinds of valuable presentations: incense,
candles, flowers and offerings of sacrifice. You shall quickly satisfy their
desires for sense gratification. People who are after materialistic affection
will worship you under the different forms of your expansions, which
will be named Durga, Bhadrakali, Vijaya, Vaisnavi, Kumuda, Candika,
Krsna, Madhavi, Kanyaka, Maya, Narayani, Téani, "Sarada and Ambika.”

Krsna and Yogamaya appeared as brother and sister—the Supreme
Powerful and the supreme power. Although there is no clear distinction
between the Powerful and the power, power is always subordinate to the
Powerful. Those who are materialistic are worshippers of the power, but
those who are transcendentalists are worshippers of the Powerful. Krsna is
the Supreme Powerful, and Durga is the supreme power within the material
world. Actually people in the Vedic culture worship both the Powerful and
the power. There are many hundreds of thousands of temples of Visnu
and Devi, and sometimes they are worshipped simultaneously. The wor-
