When Sudama Ji saw the maya of Shri Krishna, what happened?

A brief discourse from Pujya Maharaj Ji — watch the full video above to hear it completely.

The Full Discourse

Once Sudama Ji said to the Lord, 'Listen, you are our friend and master of maya, so show us maya—what is maya like?' He asked the Lord, so the Lord said, 'Come on, let's go for a bath in the ocean. There's an ocean in Dwarka, you know. Come on, let's go for a bath in the ocean. Listen carefully.' So the Lord and Sudama Ji standing before him said, 'Come on, let's count the dips. We'll take ten dips, we'll take ten dips.' When Sudama Ji took the first dip, Sudama Ji saw that he had reached another country, and in that country, wherever he went, people began to worship him, saying, 'This is Sudama Ji, friend of the Lord.'

The king of that place also began to worship him. The king said, 'Our daughter is of marriageable age, our princess. Now we should marry her to him.' Sudama Ji's marriage to the princess was forced upon him. Now there were about five or ten sons and children. In that country's custom, there was a practice that in the country where Sudama Ji married, if the wife died, the husband would be forcibly burned with her body. His wife's... now his wife died, and he was forcibly bound to the corpse, and as the fire was being lit on the pyre, he cried out, 'Shri Krishna, save me, protect me!' Then the Lord grabbed him and lifted him up and said, 'Hey, you took a long dip, didn't you?' He said, 'Lord, what am I seeing? Our marriage happened, we had children, how many years passed?' He said, 'Just now you took the dip. You just did.' He said, 'What was it?' He said, 'That was my maya.'

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Original video: Bhajan Marg (YouTube)