You have to fight against maya. You have to fight against Maya’s agents. If you are not fighting, you are being defeated. This is a fact that this world is a battle. Maya is always attacking us at every moment whether we know or not. If we do not know it, that means we are in an illusion. If we know it that means we are awake. Maya is always attacking us. If we are not fighting, that means we are losing ground. Maya is there trying to steal away your enthusiasm for devotional service through so many means and so many tricks and she is so subtle. She is so furled that she can be defeating us and we do not even know that she is there. Like a disease, like this aids virus, you don’t even know that you have it but it’s just eating your body away from inside just little by little, just marching forward through every cell of your body, just marching the troops of maya. You are just thinking, ‘I am healthy, I am wise, I am fortunate. Look at me, everything is very nice’ and pretty soon the virus just has completely conquered. You can’t even turn back. Then you realise, ‘Oh, I had this for 10 years. I didn’t even know. Now I am thoroughly defeated.’ But actually, on the subtler level maya is defeating all of us in this way, if you are not very, very cautious to understand that she is there.
