When he tries to kill the eighth child, a baby girl, she slips out of his hand and manifests as  a Devi. Child which was Vishnumaya slipped from his grip and flew into the sky. Amazed at what had happened everyone looked up. There high up in the sky, they saw the form of Devi. She held several weapopns of destruction in her Eight hands: Her nect was adorned with a garland of sweet flowers. Jewels gleamed from Her neck, arms and feet. She was holding a bow, a trident, arrows, sword, conch, discuss, and a mace. Siddhas, Charanas, Gandharvas, Apsaras, Kinnaras and other Celestial beings were around Het and they worshipped Her. From above the world, from the sky where she was poised she spoke to Kamsa and said: “Stupid fool! How foolish of you to try and kill Me! What can you achieve by killing me? Your old enemy, the Child which is deemed to kill you has already been born. Do not kill innocent people without cause: for no reason.” She vanished from the sky and the earth was lest in darkness.

The miracle which happened and the words of Vishnumaya had a strange effect on Kamsa. He was suddenly ashamed of himself for his spite against Vasudeva and Devaki. Full of remorse, Kamsa, with his own hands removed the handcuffs and chains which had bound their hands and feet and said: “Oh! My dear sister! My dear Vasudeva! I feel extremely sorry for all that has happened to both of you because of me and my cruel nature. In my love for myself I became a demon and killed all your Children. My heart had become empty of all compassion and love for others I dread to think of the future: about the special hell which will be waiting for me when I am dead. I have been guilty of child murder.”

For a while he was silent and then spoke again: “I have known that Human Beings speak lies to serve their purpose. But till now I did not realise that even Gods speak lies. Believing the words of an unknown voice from the skies I killed my sister’s children. Devaki, please forgive me and please do not grieve for your dead children. This Earthly body of ours is truly transient. It is like a vessel made out of mud. Like a pot, when broken, loses its form, even so, the Human body loses its form when death comes. But the Atman inside it is like the air in the pot, and is never . Here there is no cause to grieve. The one who knows, does not feel sad at the recurrance of death and birth. But the ignorant person who does not know the truth about the Brahman gets deluded by the EGO. He feels that the Atman and the body are inseperable. Life on this Earth with the Samasara where Man marries Woman and get Children is the life led by an ignorant man and to him the Earth is full of pain and pleasure alternatively depending on whether he is with his Children and those dear to him or parted from them by death and such like. As long as Man is caught in the web of Maya he will not learn the Truth and so he keeps on grieving.”

“But you are both different. You know that every being born on this Earth has been born so because of the Karma it has performed in its previous birth. Ignorant people think ignorantly and consider the someone has killed and someone has been killled. But you know that it is not so. Ans so, armed as you  are, with real wisdom, please be gracious enough to forgive this sinner Kamsa.” With tears flowing from his eyes he fell at the feet of the two erstwhile captives and clasped them in his hands.

Devaki and Vasudeva being very noble and good, realized that he was genuinely repentant and unhappy. They raised him up and told him that they had quite forgotten his misdemeanour. Devaki smiled at him and said: “My Dear Brother, what you say is quite right. It is only the unwise those uninitiated in the truth about the Atman: It is they who suffer from the pain of seperation and pleasure due to passing things. So long as the difference between illusion and reality is not realized, feelings of sadness, happiness, sorrow, fear, hatred, avarice, obsession, arrogance and such like develop in the heart of Man. They envelop His thinking powers and blind Him. When a Man hates another, he hates himself since the same Atman is residing in the bodies of the hater and the hated. If this Truth is realized Man will never be involved in the world of pain.”

When he found out how noble and forgiving they were Kamsa felt even more humble and, taking leave of them went back to his palace with a light heart.