June 23, 2016 Tuesday: Mother As I Saw Her (Being Reminiscences of Holy Mother Sarada Devi)
23-June-2015 (Tuesday)
Mother As I Saw Her – Swami Saradeshananda
Pilgrimages to the South and other Places – 4
The Master had never visited Gaya and Puri. It was feared by him and the devotees that he was likely to attain in these places to high spiritual planes from which he might not come back to the human body. So the Master asked the Mother to go to Gaya and offer Pinda (offering of rice balls) to the Manes there. The Mother carried out this with great faith and devotion after the Master’s earthly play was over.
During the time of the Master’s last illness the Mother went to Tarakeswar and offered ‘Hatya’ (vow of fast unto death) there his cure, when it was disclosed to her divine revelation that the cure was impossible. She had visited this place once to fulfil her earlier vow, made when she was ill at her father’s place.
[Mother As I Saw Her (Being Reminiscences of Holy Mother Sarada Devi) – Swami Saradeshananda. Translated by Prof. J. N. Dey. Sri Ramakrishna Math, Mylapore Madras-600004: p 156]
