July 16, 2015 Thursday: Mother As I Saw Her (Being Reminiscences of Holy Mother Sarada Devi)
16-July-2015 (Thursday)
Mother As I Saw Her – Swami Saradeshananda
The Mother as a Paramahamsa:
A Combination of Girlishness and Motherliness – 3
Though the Mother was herself of the old type, she liked her daughters to be modern in their education and activities. She would encourage them to be so. She had arranged for the schooling of her small nieces (brothers’ daughters) Maku and Radhu. She would say, “If they are educated and follow some learned professions, they themselves will live happily and make others also happy by being of help to them.” She had, by her own efforts, learned to read Bengali in her childhood and practised it later when she was at Dakshineswar. She had asked a certain educationist son of hers to try to make arrangements to educate the women and girls of Jayrambati. A certain favourite daughter of hers did great service to the people there, after specialising in the needle-work and midwifery. We often heard the Mother praise her and her work.
[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 169]
