Once Narada Muni who
is very intimate devotee of the Lord has meet Krishna.
And while they were
walking, Narada Muni asked Lord Krishna, “My dear Krishna, can you
please show me power of your maya, your illusiory energy? Please
explain to me the secret of this magic called maya and how she act?”
Sri Krishna
hesitated to do it. So Krishna asked his dear devotee:
My dear Narada are
you sure you want to see power of my maya!?
Narada was very
detirmened so he said: Yes, Krishna i am sure. I want to see power of
your maya!
Lord Krishna replied
: Ok Narada i will show you. Let’s lie down here in the shade and I
shall tell you everything. But first, Narada, it’s terribly hot;
would you get me a cool glass of water?”
“Right away,”
Narada promised happy to do some serviceto his beloved Lord krishna.
He set out across the fields. The sun beat down and though he was a
good walker, the little line of thatched cottages on the horizon that
marked the nearest village seemed no closer as he strode along. The
heat grew unbearable. Narada’s throat became parched too; he began
to think that he would ask for two glasses of water, and drink the
second himself.
Finally he reached
the village and ran to the nearest house. The door opened – and
there stood the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. She smiled up
at Narada through long, dark lashes and something happened to him
that had never happened before. All he could do was to look at her
beatiful face. Finally he spoke out, “Will you marry me?” That is
the Indian way; you cannot just say, “What are you doing on
Saturday night?”
The couple settled
down to a life of family bliss. After a while, children began to
arrive. Narada’s became a very animated household.
Somebody was always
being bathed or dressed; there were meals to get and people to be
provided for. And all these things were filling up their lives.
Narada and his wife became engrossed in their private little world,
quietly building their dreams. Years passed. The children grew up,
went to school, got married; in time, grandchildren arrived. Narada
became the patriarch of a great family, respected by the whole
village; his lands stretched to the horizon. He and his wife would
look at each other fondly and say, “Don’t you think being
grandparents is the greatest thing on earth?”
Then a flood came.
The village fields became a raging river, and before Narada’s
helpless eyes, everything that he loved and lived for – his lands,
his cattle, his house, but especially his beloved wife and all their
children and grandchildren – were swept away. Of all the village,
only he remained.
He was trying to
save them from all this calamities but was not successful.
Unable to watch the
destruction, Narada fell to his knees and cried for help from the
very depths of his heart.
“Krishna!
Krishna!”
At once, the raging
floods disappeared and there was Sri Krishna, standing casually on
the fields where they had walked what seemed to be so many years
before.
“Narada,” the
Lord asked gently, “where is my glass of water?”
Moral:
This is power of
maya. She make us forget lotus feet of Krishna. She overcome us and
we forget our Lord. We have done this for millions of lives in this
material wolrd. It has been our desire to be in maya as Narada wanted
to see her. We are all in situation as great sage Narada have in this
story. To be free from this illusion of the Lord we must cry his holy
name:
Hare Krishna, Hare
Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare
Hare Rama, Hare
Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.
Sri Krishna says in
Bhagavad gita 7.14:
daivī hy eṣā
guṇa-mayī
mama māyā
duratyayā
mām eva ye
prapadyante
māyām etāṁ
taranti te
This divine energy
of Mine, consisting of the three modes of material nature, is
difficult to overcome. But those who have surrendered unto Me can
easily cross beyond it.
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