Holy Mother By Swami Nikhilananda: 171 07-July-2016
07-07-2016 Thursday
Holy Mother By Swami Nikhilananda: 171
The Masters Death and After – 28
Vrindavan is one of the most sacred places of India, associated with the memory of the youthful Krishna and his consort Radhika, also called Radha. Here on the bank of the Jumna river, Sri Krishna, Radha, and the goips1 (1 The milkmaids who were playmates of Sri Krishna) used to sing and dance, while Sri Krishna played His flute. The bhakti cult of Hinduism was highly developed in Vrindavan, where sensitive spiritual souls feel an upsurge of divine love. Sri Ramakrishna had there experienced many visions recalling various episodes of Krishna’s life. Holy Mother spent her days there in spiritual ecstasy. Swami Yogananda, one of Sri Ramakrishna’s foremost devotees, has left vivid reminiscences of those days. ‘One day,’ in his words, ‘her women companions found her absorbed in deep samadhi. They repeated the Lord’s name in order to bring her mind down to the world. I then repeated Sri Ramakrishna’s name very loudly and then the Mother seemed to come down to the ordinary sense plane. During such periods of ecstasy, her manner of speech, her voice, her way of taking food, her mode of walking, and her general behaviour resembled exactly those of the Master. We have heard that in deep meditation the worshipper and the worshipped become one. The scriptures, too, mention a spiritual state in which the devotee feels his identity with God. We have read in the Bhagavata how the gopis, unable to bear their separation from Krishna, became so deeply absorbed in the thought of Him that they forgot for the time being their own individualities and acted as if each one of them were a Krishna. In the same manner Holy Mother forgot her own separate existence and behaved just like the Master, feeling her oneness with him. When I put to her some intricate questions about spiritual matters, shortly after her state of samadhi, she replied in a God-intoxicated mood, very much like Sri Ramakrishna, even using the same easy style of expression with metaphors and parables. We were all surprised to see the spirit of Sri Ramakrishna unified with her. We realized that the Master and the Mother were in essence one, though appearing in separate bodies. The Master told me many times that there was no difference between his body and that of the Mother.
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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: 104 – 105
