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"Holy Mother" painted by Swami Tadatmananda
Used courtesy of the Vedanta Society of Southern California
I forgot from which source I got this beautiful picture of Maa...but this is one of my most treasured collections, often meditating that I am that child in the picture on Maa's lap...
09-March-2012 (Friday)
Reminiscences of The Holy Mother!!!
SWAMI APURVANANDA - 25
After all, gaining Mother is tantamount to gaining everything in life – her grace alone suffices for all else. Crushed by life’s oppressive circumstances, my vision obscured by the sordidness around me, I might chance to forget Mother, but if I have a place in Mother’s heart, then certainly I can never go astray. If Mother is mindful of me and lifts me on to her lap, if she sustains me there protecting me from the squalor of life, then alone can I be pure and beautiful. This thought was the source of my sole prayer to Mother – “Mother, please remember me.” Three times I uttered this sprayer and each time she had assured me, “Yes, son, I shall remember you.” Later I heard from her attendant, Barada Maharaj, that after my departure Mother had called him and said, “Just see, how that boy got me to repeat my promise three times!” whatever Mother spoke was truth, and nothing but the truth. Three times she had said that she would not forget me; it had the potency of a triple vow. This was my supreme achievement in life, the greatest boon received, the greatest assurance, strength, faith and solace.
(REMINISCENCES OF Sri Sarada Devi by Monastics, Devotees, and others - Compiled and Edited in Bengali by SWAMI PURNATMANANDA - Translated by MALOTI SEN GUPTA : P 64)
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