Narada sees maya - PLEASE GIVE PRAMANA!?

[Guest guest]

I would like to have the pramana for this story. I can't believe Narada Muni

forgot Krsna for even one second because he had a completely transcendental

body, is the greatest of mahabhagavatas and was the spiritual master of many

pure devotees throughout the Bhagavatam. Many people keep on quoting this

story especially the karmis but nobody gives the source. If it just folklore

and not there in the scriptures, then it clearly belittles Narada Muni and

could be a great offense against him.

 

Your aspiring servant, BR Sadhu Swami

 

> Maharaj explained that, so long as Narada Muni remembered Krsna, there

> could be no possibility of Krsna showing him His Maya but, to demonstrate

> His Maya as per Narada's request, Krsna arranged a very complicated

> scenario. Catching Narada Muni off guard, Krsna bids Narada to bathe in a

> beautiful lake. Narada submerges himself and when he resurfaces, Krsna has

> disappeared. Narada, himself, has been transformed into a woman. "She"

> cannot remember Krsna. She cannot even remember who she, herself, is. The

> woman finds herself drowning in a sea of rocky waves. "Who will rescue

> me?! Who will rescue me?!" she cries. A king comes along and saves her. He

> is immediately captivated by her beauty. Ultimately, Narada as a woman

> takes shelter of this king and his kingdom. He marries her and they have

> 50 sons. She is so attached to her husband, her sons and her role as queen

> that she has no time to go to the temple or perform bhajan. Over time, the

> sons marry and, due to internal jealousies among the wives of the sons,

> war breaks out among the sons over land disputes. Eventually, all the sons

> are killed.