Holy Mother By Swami Nikhilananda: 240 22-September-2016
22-09-2016 Thursday
Holy Mother By Swami Nikhilananda: 240
Chapter 11 – Radhu : 01
OF ALL THE TRIBULATIONS Holy Mother had to endure in her family, the greatest was her niece Radharani. An inscrutable phenomenon, Radhu played an important, though painful, role in Holy Mother’s life and the fulfillment of her mission. Such troublesome, incongruous, and rebellious characters are necessary, as Sri Ramakrishna once said, ‘to ‘thicken the plot.’
After the Master’s death, Holy Mother, as we have seen, had lost all interest in the world. Life seemed insipid and meaningless, and she wanted to give up the body. But several revelations indicated to her that he body was to be preserved to fulfil a special purpose. One day, at Jayrambai, she intensely felt the emptiness of her life and asked the Master why she should keep her body any more. Suddenly in a vision she saw a girl ten or twelve years old, dressed in a red cloth, moving about in front of her. Sri Ramakrishna appeared, pointed to the girl, and said: ‘Take her as a support and live. Many spiritual seekers will come to you.’ Immediately the vision vanished. This girl, whom she later recognized in her niece Radharani, became a strong chain to bind Holy Mother’s mind, always directed upward and inward, to the relative world in order to carry on Sri Ramakrishna’s unfinished 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: 147
