Who’s in Maya?
One day, during our mid year marathon in Sydney, bhakta Josh, bhakta Sean and I all went to Cronulla Beach for some sandy sankirtan nectar!
Unfortunately I was not distributing many books at all so I took the opportunity to just try and relish the taste of duty to the spiritual master.
My weapons, my stopping lines were all futile. I tried all the different styles.
Funny ones like "Are you together or just trying to keep warm?" (its winter in Sydney) or "Are you an umbrella salesman?"
Serious ones like "Are you an undercover policeman?"
Or even intellectual ones like "Are you a professor or a scientist?"
In my desperate struggle to impress Krsna by being the doer I was stopping anyone whom entered my arms reach.
But all day nothing was working.
I thought to myself "hhhhhmmmm I'll bet that in this vulnerable position Maya is about to send me a knock out blow with one of her finest agents."
Then suddenly…… she appeared. She had all the qualifications to bewildered a wounded soldier.
I said to Josh "Look out here comes Maya Devi."
As she got closer I said "Excuse me. Did Maya send you?" she looked at me perplexed and said, "What?" "Maya sent you right?" I said. She was intrigued. She stopped. She was confused.
"Don't worry" I said, "We are monks. Check this out (I handed her a book), meditation, yoga, etc. etc."
And….. she took a book. With full enthusiasm! I couldn't believe the only person interested taking a book about Krsna was the personification of maya.
Although, to be safe I kept it very short and formal.
I learnt from this experience that Maya is actually a devotee and it is I that is the deviant.
Your impudent servant,
Dhruvananda Dasa
