Devakī

26 verses across the Bhagavad-gītā.

• SB 10.3.24 Śrī Devakī said: My dear Lord, there are different Vedas, some of which describe You as unperceivable through words and the mind. Yet You…
• SB 10.3.25 After millions of years, at the time of cosmic annihilation, when everything, manifested and unmanifested, is annihilated by the force of…
• SB 10.3.26 O inaugurator of the material energy, this wonderful creation works under the control of powerful time, which is divided into seconds,…
• SB 10.3.27 No one in this material world has become free from the four principles birth, death, old age and disease, even by fleeing to various…
• SB 10.3.28 My Lord, because You dispel all the fear of Your devotees, I request You to save us and give us protection from the terrible fear of…
• SB 10.3.29 O Madhusūdana, because of Your appearance, I am becoming more and more anxious in fear of Kaṁsa. Therefore, please arrange for that sinful…
• SB 10.3.30 O my Lord, You are the all-pervading Supreme Personality of Godhead, and Your transcendental four-armed form, holding conchshell, disc,…
• SB 10.3.31 At the time of devastation, the entire cosmos, containing all created moving and nonmoving entities, enters Your transcendental body and…
• SB 10.3.32 The Supreme Personality of Godhead replied: My dear mother, best of the chaste, in your previous birth, in the Svāyambhuva millennium, you…
• SB 10.3.33 When both of you were ordered by Lord Brahmā to create progeny, you first underwent severe austerities by controlling your senses.
• SB 10.3.34-35 My dear father and mother, you endured rain, wind, strong sun, scorching heat and severe cold, suffering all sorts of inconvenience…
• SB 10.3.36 Thus you spent twelve thousand celestial years performing difficult activities of tapasya in consciousness of Me [Kṛṣṇa consciousness].
• SB 10.3.37-38 O sinless mother Devakī, after the expiry of twelve thousand celestial years, in which you constantly contemplated Me within the core of…
• SB 10.3.39 Being husband and wife but always sonless, you were attracted by sexual desires, for by the influence of devamāyā, transcendental love,…
• SB 10.3.40 After you received that benediction and I disappeared, you engaged yourselves in sex to have a son like Me, and I fulfilled your desire.
• SB 10.3.41 Since I found no one else as highly elevated as you in simplicity and other qualities of good character, I appeared in this world as…
• SB 10.3.42 In the next millennium, I again appeared from the two of you, who appeared as My mother, Aditi, and My father, Kaśyapa. I was known as…
• SB 10.3.43 O supremely chaste mother, I, the same personality, have now appeared of you both as your son for the third time. Take My words as the…
• SB 10.3.44 I have shown you this form of Viṣṇu just to remind you of My previous births. Otherwise, if I appeared like an ordinary human child, you…
• SB 10.3.45 Both of you, husband and wife, constantly think of Me as your son, but always know that I am the Supreme Personality of Godhead. By thus…
• SB 10.82.37 [Rohiṇī and Devakī said:] What woman could forget the unceasing friendship you and Nanda have shown us, dear Queen of Vraja? There is no…
• SB 10.82.38 Before these two boys had ever seen Their real parents, you acted as Their parents and gave Them all affectionate care, training,…
• SB 10.85.29 Śrī Devakī said: O Rāma, Rāma, immeasurable Supreme Soul! O Kṛṣṇa, Lord of all masters of yoga! I know that You are the ultimate rulers of…
• SB 10.85.30 Taking birth from me, You have now descended to this world in order to kill those kings whose good qualities have been destroyed by the…
• SB 10.85.31 O Soul of all that be, the creation, maintenance and destruction of the universe are all carried out by a fraction of an expansion of an…
• SB 10.85.32-33 It is said that when Your spiritual master ordered You to retrieve his long-dead son, You brought him back from the forefathers’ abode as…