One day in Dvārakā, Devakī spoke to Kṛṣṇa: "It is said that when Your spiritual master ordered You to retrieve his long-dead son, You brought him back from the abode of the forefathers as a token of remuneration for Your guru's mercy. Please fulfill my desire in the same way, Osupreme master of all yoga masters. Please bring back my sons who were killed by Kaṁsa, so that I may see them once again."
Wanting to please Devakī, Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma then departed for the nether world, whence They brought back her six sons. When Devakī saw her lost children, she felt such affection for them that milk flowed from her breasts. She embraced them and took them onto her lap, smelling their heads again and again. Lovingly she let her sons drink from her breasts, which became wet with milk just by their touch. Because the milk in her breasts was the remnants of what had previously been drunk by Lord Kṛṣṇa, the six children were immediately awakened to their original identities. Thus they bowed down to Kṛṣṇa, Devakī, Vasudeva, and Balarāma and then departed for the abode of the demigods.