Narada sees maya

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To demonstrate how Krsna is the greatest magician, Srila Gurudeva told first

the story of Markedeya Rsi. Afterwards, He told the story that was the

highlight of the evening, a very lengthy and beautiful rendering of the

story wherein Narada Muni asks Sri Krsna if he can see His Maya potency. If

you have not heard this story from the lips of Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha

Maharaj, you must request Him to tell it sometime. To tell it in all its

elegance would require many pages. Sometime in the near future, GOKUL will

have a full transcription of it . There is much detail in it and the

following is a very condensed synopsis which cannot capture the full

purport. Please forgive us.

 

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.

 

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