September 26, 2015 Saturday: Mother As I Saw Her (Being Reminiscences of Holy Mother Sarada Devi)
26-September-2015 (Saturday)
Mother As I Saw Her – Second Part
Swami Saradeshananda
6. Superficiality of people’s Devotion
Seeing many people enthusiastic in worshipping the Master but noticing also that they were doing so without real devotion and regard for him, the Mother used to say, “Now it has become very easy for people to worship the Master in picture. Just offer Bhoga to him on a grand scale and then have the Prasada themselves. If the Master were really eating the Bhoga, we don’t know what they would be offering!” When the Master was on his sick bed, we know that there was some quarrel about the expenses. Sometimes the Mother would hint about her condition too. She would say, “Who cared for me at that time? I only had these mendicant sons who did not know where their next meal was to come from, or where they would find shelter in the night! Still it was they who did whatever was possible under the circumstances.”
[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]
