Maya Suka ,Chaya Suka

[Paramananda das]

dear Damodara Maharaja

Dandavat pranams

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

I saw your question about Maya Suka ,Chaya Suka conversation

you asked Srila Narayana Maharaja http://www.sbnmcd.org/movies/201007xx_Morning%20Walks%20From%20Nemi...

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He and Madhava Maharaja denied that Sukadeva Goswami created a Chaya Suka

that went back with Srila Vyasadeva ,it is described in great detail in Brahma Vaivarta Purana and Srila Prabhupada

has mentioned this in his purport to SB 9.21.25

A further study of Brahma Vaivarta Purana will show Srila Prabhupada

has quoted correctly and if you read it in the Harmonist commentaries of HH Bhakti Prajana Kesava Maharaja,yes it is proper .You have spoken correctly.

I pray to Sri Radha you are well and all devotees at Kesavaji Gaudiya math

your humble servant

Payonidhi das

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.21.25

sa kṛtvyāḿ śuka-kanyāyāḿ
brahmadattam ajījanat
yogī sa gavi bhāryāyāḿ
viṣvaksenam adhāt sutam
SYNONYMS

saḥ — he (King Nīpa); kṛtvyām — in his wife, Kṛtvī; śuka-kanyāyām — who was the daughter of Śuka; brahmadattam — a son named Brahmadatta; ajījanat — begot; yogī — a mystic yogī; saḥ — that Brahmadatta; gavi — by the name Gau or Sarasvatī; bhāryāyām — in the womb of his wife; viṣvaksenam —Viṣvaksena; adhāt — begot; sutam — a son.
TRANSLATION

King Nīpa begot a son named Brahmadatta through the womb of his wife, Kṛtvī, who was the daughter of Śuka. And Brahmadatta, who was a great yogi, begot a son named Viṣvaksena through the womb of his wife, Sarasvatī.
PURPORT

The Śuka mentioned here is different from the Śukadeva Gosvāmī who spoke Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Śukadeva Gosvāmī, the son of Vyāsadeva, is described in great detail in the Brahma-vaivarta Purāṇa. There it is said that Vyāsadeva maintained the daughter of Jābāli as his wife and that after they performed penances together for many years, he placed his seed in her womb. The child remained in the womb of his mother for twelve years, and when the father asked the son to come out, the son replied that he would not come out unless he were completely liberated from the influence of māyā. Vyāsadeva then assured the child that he would not be influenced by māyā, but the child did not believe his father, for the father was still attached to his wife and children. Vyāsadeva then went to Dvārakā and informed the Personality of Godhead about his problem, and the Personality of Godhead, at Vyāsadeva's request, went to Vyāsadeva's cottage, where He assured the child in the womb that he would not be influenced by māyā. Thus assured, the child came out, but he immediately went away as a parivrājakācārya. When the father, very much aggrieved, began to follow his saintly boy, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, the boy created a duplicate Śukadeva, who later entered family life. Therefore, the śuka-kanyā, or daughter of Śukadeva, mentioned in this verse is the daughter of the duplicate or imitation Śukadeva. The original Śukadeva was a lifelong brahmacārī.