July 14, 2015 Tuesday: Mother As I Saw Her (Being Reminiscences of Holy Mother Sarada Devi)
14-July-2015 (Tuesday)
Mother As I Saw Her – Swami Saradeshananda
The Mother as a Paramahamsa:
A Combination of Girlishness and Motherliness – 1
Sometimes, seeing the Mother’s childish behaviour in some ordinary things, her children would be amused very much. The vegetable garden of Koalpara had an abundance of the vegetable known as Patal. Once during the Mother’s absence from Jayrambati, a son had brought some suckers of these from Koalpara and planted them in the Mother’s compound. Though every one liked this vegetable very much, it was not being grown at Jayrambati doe to a certain superstition. So, as the Patal grew, there was much talk about it among the ladies, and some of them went and asked the Mother as to who would pluck the Patal when it began to bear, for, in the colloquial language, plucking ‘Patal’ meant ‘dying’, like ‘kicking the bucket’ in English. The Mother was much perturbed at this information and immediately asked them to uproot the plants. This order was at once carried out. Nevertheless, the boys were very much amused at it, and this remained a subject of joke with them for a long time. Now-a-days they grow this patal profusely in the Matri-Mandir at Jayrambati and in the neighbouring areas.
[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 168 – 169]
