September 25, 2015 Friday: Mother As I Saw Her (Being Reminiscences of Holy Mother Sarada Devi)
25-September-2015 (Friday)
Mother As I Saw Her – Second Part
Swami Saradeshananda
5. On Offerings and Subscriptions – 2
If I remember it right, it was a Brahmacharin of an Ashrama in Garbeta or some place near about it who had been out collecting money for the upkeep of the Ashrama there and came to Jayrambati in course of his wanderings. The Mother, who was then staying there, received him kindly and looked after him with great care and love. She then sweetly asked him not to approach anybody in Jayrambati or the neighbouring villages for subscription, observing; “The peope of these villages are poor. They somehow or other make both ends meet by dint of hard labour in their fields. So it is not right to collect any money from them. If you approach them in the name of the Master, they will tell to themselves, ‘What a nuisance this Master is?” The Mother was always filled with uneasiness at the mention of ‘raising a subscription.’
[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 205]
