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A long time ago in ancient India, there lived King Ugrasen. He had two children by the name of Prince Kansa and princess Devaki. Prince was evil by nature. When he grew up, he imprisoned his own father Ugrasen and became the king himself.Soon his sister got married to King Vasudeva. However after the wedding, Kansa heard the divine warning from the sky, "O King! Your sister's eighth son will grow up to kill you."After hearing all this Kansa was afraid. Immediately he imprisoned his own sister Devaki and her husband and kept them under watch.
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Whenever Devaki gave birth to a child in the prison, Kansa arrived there personally and killed the child. When Devaki became pregnant for the eight time, King Vasudeva's friend's (King Nanda's) wife was also pregnant. The eight child, Lord Krishna was born to Devaki at midnight in the prison. As soon as the child was born, Lord Vishnu appeared in divine form and the whole prison was filled with a glittering light. At the same time when Lord Krishna was born in the prison, the divine energy of Lord Vishnu was born in Gokul, as a baby girl to queen Yashoda.
A heavenly message came to Vasudev as soon as Lord Krishna was born, "Take this child across the Yamuna River to Gokul and exchange him with Yashoda's daughter. You will return to the prison before anyone comes to know about the birth of this child."
Vasudev immediately followed the advice. As he was carrying the child in his arms, he found that the prison doors opened automatically and guards were put to sleep by god. After reaching safely to the palace of King Nanda and queen Yashodha and putting baby Krishna safely in place of Yashodha's baby girl, he returned to the prison with the baby girl.
As soon as Vasudeva came back to the prison and laid the baby girl next to Devaki's side, the guards ran to inform Kansa about the birth of eight child. Kansa rushed to kill the child. As he about to kill the baby girl, she flew up and said, "O evil king! You will gain nothing by killing me. The one who will destroy you is elsewhere."
Moral of the story is whenever evil in the world like Kansa' wicked rule becomes unbearable; God himself comes to save us in form of incarnation like Lord Krishna. Against God, not even mightiest evil can do anything.
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