tasyÄá¹ rÄtryÄá¹ vyatÄ«tÄyÄá¹
kaá¹sa ÄhÅ«ya mantriṇaḥ
tebhya Äcaá¹£á¹a tat sarvaá¹
yad uktaá¹ yoga-nidrayÄ
tasyÄm - that; rÄtryÄm - night; vyatÄ«tÄyÄm - having passed; kaá¹saḥ - King Kaá¹sa; ÄhÅ«ya - calling for; mantriṇaḥ - all the ministers; tebhyaḥ - them; Äcaá¹£á¹a - informed; tat - that; sarvam - all; yat uktam - which was spoken (that Kaá¹sa's murderer was already somewhere else); yoga-nidrayÄ - by YogamÄyÄ, the goddess DurgÄ.
After that night passed, Kaá¹sa summoned his ministers and informed them of all that had been spoken by Yoga-mÄyÄ [who had revealed that He who was to slay Kaá¹sa had already been born somewhere else].
The Vedic scripture Caṇá¸Ä« describes mÄyÄ, the energy of the Supreme Lord, as nidrÄ: durgÄ devÄ« sarva-bhÅ«teá¹£u nidrÄ-rÅ«peṇa samÄsthitaḥ. The energy of Yoga-mÄyÄ and MahÄ-mÄyÄ keeps the living entities sleeping in this material world in the great darkness of ignorance. Yoga-mÄyÄ, the goddess DurgÄ, kept Kaá¹sa 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 DevakÄ«, but according to the Lord’s original plan, as prophesied to BrahmÄ, He went to Vá¹›ndÄvana to give pleasure to mother YaÅ›odÄ and Nanda MahÄrÄja and other intimate friends and devotees for eleven years. Then He would return to kill Kaá¹sa. Because Kaá¹sa did not know this, he believed Yoga-mÄyÄ’s statement that Kṛṣṇa was born elsewhere, not of DevakÄ«.
