02-February-2012 (Thursday) Reminiscences of The Holy Mother!!!
02-February-2012 (Thursday)
Reminiscences of The Holy Mother!!!
SWAMI SARADESHANANDA-30
With regard to Mother’s special regard for sons who had renounced the world, another incident comes to my mind. One evening, after dark, an attendant-son (the author himself) was reading out letters to Mother. She sat on a mat on the floor, her legs stretched in the front; a hurricane lantern burned nearby. The attendant was sitting beside Mother, his head bent. Suddenly he noticed a big scorpion advancing towards Mother. Apprehensive that it might sting Mother, he immediately crushed it with a powerful kick. There was no time to look for a stick or something else. Mother regarded the dead insect compassionately and murmured, “It lost its life struck by a sadhu’s foot.” Her manner implied that the scorpion had attained spiritual salvation thereby.
(REMINISCENCES OF Sri Sarada Devi by Monastics, Devotees, and others - Compiled and Edited in Bengali by SWAMI PURNATMANANDA - Translated by MALOTI SEN GUPTA : P 41-42)
