question about Vasudeva and Devaki and their socalled suffering !

[Paramananda das]

question about Vasudeva and Devaki and their socalled suffering !
Dear Gurudeva,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada, to Srila Narayan Maharaja and all the Vaisnava devotees of the lord. All glories to your service, Gurudeva.
I pray for the devotees in Israel but I know they are in good hands if they are chanting.
I have a question regarding Devaki and Vasudeva. Why after bringing Krsna to earth they had to keep suffering in the prison? From my understanding they have a really good karma if they are blessed to be Krsna’s parents. Is there a reason why they kept there for so long?
Your servant,
Isvara Puri Das
dear Isvara Puri das
Please accept my blessings
All glories to Srila Prabhupada my Gurudeva and Lord Gauranga
Well Vasudeva and Devaki are not just having good Karma they are Lord Krsnas parents .Thanks for your question .
If you read the chapter of Lord Krsnas birth in Srimad Bhagavatam 10 canto chapter 3 you read Krsnas words to His parents :
Text 32:
The Supreme Personality of Godhead replied: My dear mother, best of the chaste, in your previous birth, in the Svāyambhuva millennium, you were known as Pṛśni, and Vasudeva, who was the most pious Prajāpati, was named Sutapā.
Text 33:
When both of you were ordered by Lord Brahmā to create progeny, you first underwent severe austerities by controlling your senses.
Texts 34-35:
My dear father and mother, you endured rain, wind, strong sun, scorching heat and severe cold, suffering all sorts of inconvenience according to different seasons. By practicing prāṇāyāma to control the air within the body through yoga, and by eating only air and dry leaves fallen from the trees, you cleansed from your minds all dirty things. In this way, desiring a benediction from Me, you worshiped Me with peaceful minds.
Text 36:
Thus you spent twelve thousand celestial years performing difficult activities of tapasya in consciousness of Me [Kṛṣṇa consciousness].
Texts 37-38:
O sinless mother Devakī, after the expiry of twelve thousand celestial years, in which you constantly contemplated Me within the core of your heart with great faith, devotion and austerity, I was very much satisfied with you. Since I am the best of all bestowers of benediction, I appeared in this same form as Kṛṣṇa to ask you to take from Me the benediction you desired. You then expressed your desire to have a son exactly like Me.
Text 39:
Being husband and wife but always sonless, you were attracted by sexual desires, for by the influence of devamāyā, transcendental love, you wanted to have Me as your son. Therefore you never desired to be liberated from this material world.
Text 40:
After you received that benediction and I disappeared, you engaged yourselves in sex to have a son like Me, and I fulfilled your desire.
Text 41:
Since I found no one else as highly elevated as you in simplicity and other qualities of good character, I appeared in this world as Pṛśnigarbha, or one who is celebrated as having taken birth from Pṛśni.
Text 42:
In the next millennium, I again appeared from the two of you, who appeared as My mother, Aditi, and My father, Kaśyapa. I was known as Upendra, and because of being a dwarf, I was also known as Vāmana.
Text 43:
O supremely chaste mother, I, the same personality, have now appeared of you both as your son for the third time. Take My words as the truth.
Text 44:
I have shown you this form of Viṣṇu just to remind you of My previous births. Otherwise, if I appeared like an ordinary human child, you would not believe that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, has indeed appeared.
Text 45:
Both of you, husband and wife, constantly think of Me as your son, but always know that I am the Supreme Personality of Godhead. By thus thinking of Me constantly with love and affection, you will achieve the highest perfection: returning home, back to Godhead.
Text 46:
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: After thus instructing His father and mother, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, remained silent. In their presence, by His internal energy, He then transformed Himself into a small human child. [In other words, He transformed Himself into His original form: kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam.]
So as far as to why the devotees sometimes have to suffer like Devaki and Vasudeva it was all Krsnas plan.I can tell you this in 1978 when I read Srila Prabhupadas Krsna book in Danish ,I really became a devotee.Reading about how Vasudeva saved Devaki and pacified Kamsa and his whole devotional attitude made me think ,I should become a full time devotee.I was so impressed by Vasudeva and Devakis devotion to Krsna .SO I am personally thankful to them for manifesting these pastimes with Lord Krsna because they made me a devotee.I hope this answers your question?
May Sri Vasudeva and Sri Devaki always bless us with remembrance of their beloved son Krsna