August 23, 2015 Sunday: Mother As I Saw Her (Being Reminiscences of Holy Mother Sarada Devi)
23-August-2015 (Sunday)
Mother As I Saw Her – Swami Saradeshananda
The Mother as a Paramahamsa:
A sensational Jagaddhatri Puja at The Mother’s House – 3
When they entered the village Desra, the dogs of that place started barking at them. Some of the villagers came out and showed them the way. When they reached Koalpara Ashrama it was quite late in the night. They woke up the inmates, who were fast asleep. They were astonished at their arrival. But when they came to know the reason for this, they were very much perturbed; for it was the Koalpara Ashrama that had sent the bunch of bananas which had failed to ripen. Some of them at once went in search of ripe bananas, but with no success. The two friends therefore spent the rest of the night at Koalpara and returned to the Mother early next morning empty-handed, to tell her about the unavailability of ripe bananas anywhere. This filled the Mother and the others with great sorrow and anxiety. How could the Puja be performed without bananas?
[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 190]
