September 11, 2015 Friday: Mother As I Saw Her (Being Reminiscences of Holy Mother Sarada Devi)
11-September-2015 (Friday)
Mother As I Saw Her – Swami Saradeshananda
Events after her Passing Away – 3
At noon the holy body of the Mother, decorated with sandal paste and garlands and carried on a beautiful cot was brought across the Ganga on a boat and placed in the grounds of the Belur Math. The daughters of the Mother, with tears in their eyes, bathed the body with the wter of the Ganga and dressed it in new garments. It was then placed before the stairs leading to the Master’s shrine and worshipped with flowers and the performance of Aratrika. Then they took many ‘foot-prints’ of the Mother. The body was now taken to the bank of the Ganga and placed on the funeral pyre of sandalwood at a place the Mother’s shrine at the Belur Math now stands.
[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 198]
