22-December-2011 (Thursday)
Reminiscences of The Holy Mother!!!
SWAMI SHIVANANDA - 04
At night, when we retired after dinner, I had a talk with Shashi Maharaj and we decided that next day we would cook the meal and entertain Mother. When we placed our proposal before her after breakfast next morning, she laughed it away at first. She said, “How can that be, son? You have come to me, your mother, it’s for me to cook and feed you. On the contrary, you are saying that you will cook and feed me! Besides, how can you do the cooking? Your eyes will smart with smoke!” She put forth many such arguments. We paid no heed to her protests and pressed her hard. Finally, I said, “We are brahmins by birth, why should object to taking food cooked by us? Master himself had taken food cooked by me” and so on. At last, Mother agreed. Shashi Maharaj and I cooked the food and Mother enjoyed it very much.
(REMINISCENCES OF Sri Sarada Devi by Monastics, Devotees, and others - Compiled and Edited in Bengali by SWAMI PURNATMANANDA - Translated by MALOTI SEN GUPTA : P 13)
