Holy Mother By Swami Nikhilananda: 066 Monday 14-03-2016
14-03-2016 Monday
Holy Mother By Swami Nikhilananda: 066
First Visit to Dakshineswar – 14
Years after, certain critics said that Sri Ramakrishna virtually forced Sarada to lead the life of a virgin or a widow. When such criticism was once made to Max Muller by a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, a Westernized liberal Hindu religious movement, he said: ‘Why do you talk that way? Did his wife ever make a complaint against Ramakrishna?’ ‘Sri Ramakrishna,’ Romain Rolland writes, ‘has at times been blamed, and very coarsely blamed, for having sacrificed her. She herself never showed any trace of it. She showered peace and serenity throughout her life on all who came in contact with her . . . . It was by the consent of his wife that he was free to follow the life of his choice. Magnanimously she renounced the wife’s binding right over her husband and encouraged him in his mission.’
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Holy Mother - Being the Life of Sri Sarada Devi Wife of Sri Ramakrishna And Helpmate in his Mission By Swami Nikhilananda p: 44