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Where is Krishna's birth place?
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Although I am unborn and My transcendental body never deteriorates, and although I am the Lord of all living entities, I still appear in every millennium in My original transcendental form. Bhagavad gita 4.6
Lord Krishna's birth place is Mathura in the womb of Devaki.
Srila Prabhupada founder of ISKCON comments:
One may ask, Since the Supreme Lord is the original father of all living entities, how could a lady known as Devaki give birth to Him as her son? The answer is that Devaki no more gave birth to the Lord than the eastern horizon gives birth to the sun. The sun rises on the eastern horizon and sets below the western horizon, but actually the sun neither rises nor sets. The sun is always in its fixed position in the sky, but the earth is revolving, and due to the different positions of the revolving earth, the sun appears to be rising or setting. In the same way, the Lord always exists, but for His pastimes as a human being He seems to take birth like an ordinary child.
When the heart is uncontaminated, it is said to be in the existential position of Vasudeva. Vasudeva can beget Vasudeva, or Krishna, who is transcendentally situated.??
This is a statement regarding the birth of Lord Krishna. The incarnation of the Lord entered the mind of Vasudeva and was then transferred to the mind of Devaki. Srila Sridhara Svami gives the following annotation in this connection:
??mana avivesa?? manasy avirbabhuva;
jivanam iva na dhatu-sambandha ity arthah.
There was no question of the seminal discharge necessary for the birth of an ordinary human being. Srila Rupa Gosvami also comments in this connection that Lord Krishna first appeared in the mind of Anakadundubhi, Vasudeva, and was then transferred to the mind of Devaki-devi. Thus the spiritual bliss in the mind of Devaki-devi gradually increased, just as the moon increases every night until it becomes a full moon. At the time of His appearance, Lord Krishna came out of the mind of Devaki and appeared within the prison house of Kamsa, by the side of Devaki??s bed. At that time, by the spell of yogamaya, Devaki thought that her child had now been born. In this connection, even the demigods from the celestial kingdom were also bewildered. As it is stated, muhyanti yat surayah (SB 1.1.1). They came to offer their prayers to Devaki, thinking that the Supreme Lord was within her womb. The demigods came to Mathura from their celestial kingdom. This indicates that Mathura is still more important than the celestial kingdom of the upper planetary system.
Lord Krishna, as the eternal son of Yasodamayi, is always present in Vrndavana. The pastimes of Lord Krishna are continuously going on within both this material world and the spiritual world. In such pastimes, the Lord always thinks Himself the eternal son of mother Yasoda and father Nanda Maharaja. In the Tenth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam, Chapter Six, verse 43, it is stated, ??When magnanimous, broad-hearted Nanda Maharaa came back from a tour, he immediately took his son Krishna on his lap and experienced transcendental bliss by smelling His head.?? Similarly, in the Tenth Canto, Ninth Chapter, verse 21, it is said, ??This Personality of Godhead, appearing as the son of a cowherd damsel, is easily available and understandable to devotees, whereas those who are under the concept of bodily life, even though they are very much advanced in austerity and penance, or even though they are great philosophers, are unable to understand Him.??
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura next quotes Sripada Baladeva Vidyabhusana, who refers to the prayers offered by the demigods to Lord Krishna in the womb of Devaki and summarizes the birth of Krishna as follows: ??As the rising moon manifests light in the east, so Devaki, who was always situated on the transcendental platform, having been initiated in the Krishna mantra by Vasudeva, the son of Surasena, kept Krishna within her heart.?? From this statement of Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.2.18) it is understood that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, having been transferred from the heart of Anakadundubhi, or Vasudeva, manifested Himself in the heart of Devaki. According to Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana, ??the heart of Devaki?? means the womb of Devaki because in Srimad-Bhagavatam 10.2.41 the demigods say, distyyamba te kuksi-gatah parah puman: ??Mother Devaki, the Lord is already within your womb.?? Therefore, that the Lord was transferred from the heart of Vasudeva to the heart of Devaki means that He was transferred to the womb of Devaki.