Sri Sarada Devi(1853–1920)is known as the Holy Mother among the devotees and admirers and was the spiritual consort of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa who is worshiped as an God incarnate all over the world. Sri Ramakrishna revealed her as an incarnation of Goddess Sarasvati who came to remove ignorance of the suffering humanity.
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TEACHINGS OF SRI SARADA DEVI
CHAPTER-III; CONTROL OF THE
MIND; PART-III
Sri Sarada Devi |
17. "All is in the mind — purity, as also
impurity, is in the mind."
18. "There is evil in your mind. That is why
you can't find peace."
19. "It is a complex always to be suspecting
impurities. The more you emphasize your obsession, the more obsessed you
become. It is true of all things."
20. "He who has a pure mind sees everything
pure."
"On moonlit nights I would look at the moon and
pray, 'May my mind be pure as the rays of the moon!' or 'O Lord, there are
stains even on the moon, but let my mind be absolutely stainless.'
22. "When I was at Vrindavan, I used to visit
Vankubihari (Krishna in a bent pose) and prayed to him, 'Your form is bent, but
Your mind is straight — kindly straighten the windings of my mind.'"
23. "Do the Master's work, and along with that
practise spiritual disciplines too. Work helps one to keep off idle thoughts.
Ifone is without work, such thoughts rush into one's mind."
24. "How can one's mind be healthy if one
doesn't work? No one can spend all twenty-four hours in thought and medi tation. So one
must engage oneself in work; it keeps the mind cheerful
25. Alluding to X___, Mother said, "Just see
how impure her mind has become through idleness."
26. Disciple: "Some say that one achieves
nothing through work. One can succeed in spiritual life only through Japa and
meditation."
Mother: "How have they known as to what will give
success and what will not? Does one achieve everything by practising Japa and
meditation for a few days? Nothing whatever is achieved unless Mahamaya clears
the path. Didn't you notice the other day that a person's brain became deranged
because he forced himself to excessive prayer and meditation? If one's head
becomes deranged, one's life becomes useless. The intelligence of a man is very
precarious. It is like the thread of a screw. If one thread is loosened, then
he goes crazy. Or he becomes entangled in the trap of Mahamaya and thinks
himself to be very intelligent. He feels that he is quite all right. But if the
screw is tightened in a different direction, one follows the right path and
enjoys peace and happiness. One should always recollect God and pray to Him for
right understanding. How many are there who can meditate and practise Japa all
the time? At first they earnestly practise these disciplines, but their brains
become heated in the long run by sitting constantly on their prayer rugs. They
become very vain. They also suffer from mental worries by reflecting on
different things. It is much better to work than to allow the mind to roam at
large. For when the mind gets a free scope to wander, it creates much
confusion. My Naren thought of these things and wisely founded institutions
where people would do disinterested work."
SOURCE: saradadevi.info
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GOSPEL OF SRI SARADA DEVI
YEAR:1917
I went to see the Holy
Mother in the evening. I had been residing at our Baghbazar house at that time
and I visited her almost every day. Finding her alone I narrated to her a dream
and said, "Mother, one night I saw Sri Ramakrishna in a dream. You had been
living then at Jayrambati. I saluted him and asked, 'Where is the Mother?' He
said, 'Follow that lane and you will find a thatched cottage. She is seated in
the front porch.'" The Holy Mother was on her bed. With great enthusiasm
she sat up and said, "You are quite right. Your dream is true."
"Is it, then, true?" I said in surprise, "I had the idea that
your home at Jayrambati is a brick building. But in the dream I saw the earthen
floor, thatched roof, etc., and therefore concluded that it was all
illusory."
In the course of conversation regarding
austerity for the realization of God, she said, "Golap-Ma and Yogin-Ma
devoted a great deal of their time to meditation and the repetition of God's
name. Yogin-Ma practised the greatest austerities. At one time she lived only
on milk and fruits. Even now she spends much of her time in spiritual
practices. The mind of Golap-Ma is hardly affected .by external things. She
does not even hesitate to eat cooked vegetables purchased from the market,
which a Brahmin widow would never touch. "
It was arranged to have devotional songs on
the Goddess Kali sung that evening at the house of the Holy Mother. The monks
of the Belur Math would take part in it. The music commenced at half-past eight
in the evening. Many of the women devotees sat on the verandah to hear the
music. I was rubbing oil on the Mother's feet and could hear the songs from the
room. I had heard them many a time before. But that day those songs, coming
from the mouth of the devotees, had a novel charm. They were full of power and
thrill. My eyes became moist. They were singing now and then those songs which
Sri Ramakrishna had himself sung. At such times the Holy Mother would cry out
with enthusiasm, "Yes, Sri Ramakrishna would sing this song!" They
commenced the song whose first line runs thus: "The bee of my mind has
become fascinated with the blue lotus of the Divine Mother's feet!," The
Holy Mother could not lie down any more. A few tear-drops trickled down her cheeks.
She said, "Come, darling. Let us go to the verandah." After the
singing was over, I saluted the Mother and returned home.
SOURCE: saradadevi.info
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GREATNESS OF SRI SARADA DEVI
SWAMI TURIYANANDA ABOUT THE HOLY MOTHER
[Swami
Turiyananda (Hari) is one of the direct disciples of Sri Ramakrishna. Sri
Ramakrishna regarded him as a yogi. Hari was one among the youngsters who
served Sri Ramakrishna during his last illness at Cossipore. When Swami
Vivekananda went to the West for the second time, he took Swami Turiyananda
with him. When Swamiji went back to India, Turiyananda continued his work first
in New York and Boston and later in California. Due to his ill health he
returned to India and spent rest of his life in intense spiritual practices.]
"It
is a news of great joy that the Holy Mother Calcutta. Numberless people will be
relieved of their lives’ afflictions at her feet. Blessed is the Mother’s
grace. How great is her fortitude! Not the slightest trace of annoyance about
her. Day and night, increasingly people are coming, and she is doing good to
them unstintingly.
You
have evinced a very good attitude by placing your son at the feet of the Mother
for some time. Life becomes blessed when one succeeds in dedicating at her feet
one’s all,-wife, wealth, relatives and even oneself. They of themselves fulfill
the desires of devotees.
SOURCE: SRI SARADA DEVI, THE
GREAT WONDER
BY ADVAITA ASHRAMA, MAYAVATI
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