In Honour of the Holy Mother's Birthday, I should like to add something to the beautiful thoughts expressed by the devotees in Mother's Courtyard:
Swami Vivekananda writes to Swami Shivananda about Holy Mother
There, you see. In this terrible winter I am lecturing from place to place and fighting against odds, so that funds may be collected for Mother's Math. Baburam's mother must have lost her sense owing to old age and that is why she is about to worship Durga in the earthen image, ignoring the living one. (Viz. Holy Mother Shri Sarada Devi.) Brother, faith is very difficult to achieve. Brother, I shall show how to worship the living Durga and then only shall I be worthy of my name. I shall be relieved when you will have purchased a plot of land and established there the living Durga, the Mother. Till then I am not returning to my native land.
It is truly amazing that not everyone recognized who the Mother was, not even sometimes those in her own presence. How patient she must have been and had to be.
RE: "It is truly amazing that not everyone recognized who the Mother was, not even sometimes those in her own presence. How patient she must have been and had to be."
And what about Radhu?
I truly believe that Saints are made from suffering. The Holy Mother knew
all about suffering, after seeing the Master's painful loss of His body from throat cancer.
I'm pretty sure, that Sri Sarada also enjoyed a hearty laugh
every now and then....Radhu would sometimes supply the fuel for that.
'Pure devilment' can be amusing...
And, I believe that Mother is still suffering....and also smiling, too..for she lives in each and every one of us......Om MahaShakti Om
