"In the delivery of this favored woman, all nature shall have cause to exult."[114:2] In the sacred book of the Hindoos, called "_Vishnu Purana_," we read as follows: "Eulogized by the gods, Devaki bore in her womb the lotus-eyed deity, the protector of the world. . . . "No person could bear to gaze upon Devaki, from the light that invested her, and those who contemplated her radiance felt their minds disturbed. The gods, invisible to mortals, celebrated her praises continually from the time that _Vishnu_ was contained in her person."[114:3] Again we read: "The divine _Vishnu himself_, the root of the vast universal tree, inscrutable by the understandings of all gods, demons, sages, and men, past, present, or to come, adored by Brahma and all the deities, he who is without beginning, middle, or end, being moved to relieve the earth of her load, descended into the womb of Devaki, and was born as her son, Vasudeva," _i. e._, _Crishna_.[114:4] Again: "Crishna is the very _Supreme Brahma_, though it be a _mystery_[114:5] how the Supreme _should assume the form of a man_."[114:6] The Hindoo belief in a divine incarnation has at least, above many others, its logical side of conceiving that God manifests himself on earth whenever the weakness or the errors of humanity render his presence necessary. We find this idea expressed in one of their sacred books called the "_Bhágavat Geeta_," wherein it says: "I (the Supreme One said), I am made evident by my own power, and as often as there is a decline of virtue, and an insurrection of vice and injustice in the world, I make myself evident, _and thus I appear from age to age_, for the preservation of the just, the destruction of the wicked, and the establishment of virtue."[114:7] Crishna is recorded in the "_Bhágavat Geeta_" as saying to his beloved disciple Arjouna: "He, O Arjoun, who, from conviction, acknowledgeth my _divine birth_ (upon quitting his mortal form), entereth into me."[115:1] Again, he says: "The foolish, being _unacquainted with my supreme and divine nature, as Lord of all things_, despise me in this _human form_, trusting to the evil, diabolic, and deceitful principle within them. They are of vain hope, of vain endeavors, of vain wisdom, and void of reason; whilst men of great minds, trusting to their divine natures, _discover that I am before all things and incorruptible_, and serve me with their hearts undiverted by other gods."[115:2]