Vasudev and Devaki waited in fear for Kansa to appear, but suddenly all was silent. The guards at the prison door fell asleep, as did every living creature in that great palace. Suddenly the dark dungeon was filled with a shining light and once again there came a voice out of the sky.

'Take your son to Gokul, across the river Yamuna, to the house of Nand, the cowherd,' said the voice to Vasudev. 'Nand's wife has just had a baby. Leave your son with her, and bring her child back to Devaki.'

The light vanished and the prison became as dark and dreary as before. But the doors stood open, the locks broken, the guards snoring with their heads on their weapons. Vasudev's chains fell away from his ankles. In great wonder, he took up his son in his arms, and walked out of his prison, into the dark and stormy night.

Vasudev walked through the pouring rain, holding his newborn baby close to his chest, safe from the wind and the wet, trusting in the divine voice. But when he came to the river Yamuna, he saw that the great river was in flood. The bridge had been washed away, and no boat would be able to cross that furious flood.

Krishna's birth cont'd... 
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