Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.1332

c8.1332

9) *Śrī Kṛṣṇa instructed Nārada about Māyā.* Nārada once requested Kṛṣṇa to teach him about Māyā (illusion) and Kṛṣṇa told him that he would be taught sometime later. Afterwards, one day while Nārada was walking about, it began to rain and he took shelter from the rain in a hut near at hand. There was a beautiful young woman in the hut and Nārada fell in love with her. Nārada lived with her for many years and a number of children were born to them. But, a flood washed the mother and children off into the sea, and Nārada was grief-stricken. Then Kṛṣṇa appeared there and asked Nārada whether he loved Māyā. Nārada confessed that he understood Māyā very well and requested Kṛṣṇa to save him from attachments on account of Māyā.