17-January-2012 (Tuesday) : Reminiscences of The Holy Mother!!!
17-January-2012 (Tuesday)
Reminiscences of The Holy Mother!!!
SWAMI SARADESHANANDA-14
A couple, who were devotees, once came to meet Mother at Jayrambati with their four children. They had travelled long and were quite exhausted by the journey. Moreover, one of the children was suffering from malaria. On arrival, they found a very small thatched cottage, that too, overcrowded. They hardly knew where they could rest or even sit. Besides, where was Mother herself? Helpless, they stood outside the house with their children. The news reached Mother. She had them brought indoors, and going forward to receive them, personally escorted the lady and the children with much affection to the veranda in front of her own room. Her loving greeting, “Come, my daughter”, not only dispelled the daughter’s feelings of distress and dejection, but also filled her heart with joy and she grew cheerful once again. The magic of Mother’s affection changed the scene in a moment. Arrangements were made at once for the children to sleep and for the parents to rest. Mother spread the mats beside the door of her room. Milk for the children, and medicine too, was provided in no time. Could there be dearth of anything for a daughter in her Mother’s house? What diffidence can she feel there? In a short while, the lady was seen to accompany the other women of Mother’s household to Badduje-pukur,1 (1The pond belonging to the Banerjee family.) just as one of them, with a pitcher resting against her hip in order to bathe and fetch water afterwards.
(REMINISCENCES OF Sri Sarada Devi by Monastics, Devotees, and others - Compiled and Edited in Bengali by SWAMI PURNATMANANDA - Translated by MALOTI SEN GUPTA : P 30-31)
