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Narada enters a lake and is changed into a woman. Lives a life as a woman, then is shown by one of the Gods (possibly Vishnu) that the whole life was just an Illusion. |
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From: JayGee*
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Here is more detail taken verbatim from:
http://www.sangeetham.com/tygkritis/aDigi_sukhamu.htm
Narada approached the Lord with a request to be made immune to
Maya. The story goes that Narada boasted to Brahma and others that
since he was such an ardent devotee of Vishnu, he was immune to
Maya. Having said this he left and was floating about when he saw a
lovely lake on Earth. He came down and bathed in it and was
immediately transformed into a young maiden called Sudati who had
no memory of having been Narada. As she wandered in the forest,
King Nikunda of Peethikapuri (modern Pitthapuram in AP) saw her and
fell in love with her. Narada (or rather Sudati) reciprocated and
they were married. Sudati bore Nikunda sixty children, after whom
the sixty years of the Hindu calendar (Prabhava, Vibhava etc are
named). One day, Nipunjaya, the neighbouring king waged war on
Peethikapuri and killed Nikunda and his sixty sons. Queen Sudati
ran to the battlefield and wept for days. Then one day, she was
overcome with hunger and looked about for food. The only edible
item there was a fruit that hung high on a tree. To reach it,
Sudati used the skeletons of her sons to make a ladder. Lord
Vishnu, now taking pity on her appeared and asked her to take a dip
in a second lake nearby for her children's sake. She did so and was
transformed back into Narada, but with a set of bangles on his left
hand. These bangles served to bring to his memory the happenings of
the past years and helped him realise that he had become a victim
of Maya. The two lakes Narada Gundam and Mukti Gundam are at
Sarpavaram near Pithapuram. There is also a temple to Patala
Bhavanarayanaswamy here. Narada is said to have undertaken penance
here and was then blessed with enlightenment and was freed of the
bangles.This was the catalyst to his becoming a renunciate.
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