22-January-2012 (Sunday) Reminiscences of The Holy Mother!!!
22-January-2012 (Sunday)
Reminiscences of The Holy Mother!!!
SWAMI SARADESHANANDA-19
Once a woman labourer, belonging to a low caste, had come to Mother in the afternoon to deliver some goods sent by a devotee. Mother asked her to bath and have her meal, and to rest a little before she returned. After she had rested and was about to leave, Mother told her to stay the night also as it was quite late. It was arranged that she would sleep in the veranda just outside Mother’s door. The woman, elderly and a victim of malaria, had walked a very long distance and was exhausted. In deep sleep, she unconsciously soiled her bed. Mother woke up before dawn as was her habit, and upon opening the door, immediately discovered this. What was to be done? If others woke up and found this out, there would be no end to the humiliation and abuses that this hapless daughter of hers would have to face. Mother was worried. Then she gently awakened the woman who was still fast asleep. Reassuring her with sweet words, she quietly gave her some puffed rice and Molasses to eat on the way and said, “Child, if you start early you will not suffer from the heat of the sun.” Quite content, the woman touched her feet and departed. Mother herself then cleaned the place. She cleaned the veranda and smeared it with a mixture of cow dung and mud. After washing the mat, she spread it out to dry on the bank of the pond. No one was aware of anything. Later, however, one lady-devotee’s investigations as to who had cleaned the veranda so early in the morning, led her to learn all about the incident.
(REMINISCENCES OF Sri Sarada Devi by Monastics, Devotees, and others - Compiled and Edited in Bengali by SWAMI PURNATMANANDA - Translated by MALOTI SEN GUPTA : P 34-35)
