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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SRI SARADA DEVI STOTRAM 'PRAKIRTIM PARAMAM' SUNG AT JAYRAMBATI
The
Matri Mandir stands in Jayrambati on the very spot where Sri Sarada Devi took
birth in 1853. It was established in 1920. Every evening this Stotram is sung in
the temple. May Sri Sarada Devi bless you with devotion.
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GOSPEL OF SRI SARADA DEVI
22nd August 1918
It was evening when I went to see the Holy Mother.
She was lying on a mat on the floor near her couch. I prostrated myself before
her and asked her in the
course of our conversation, "Mother, it is a long
time since I had been to our home at Kalighat. Should I go there now?"
Holy Mother |
Mother: Why
don't you stay here for a few days more? Once you go to Kalighat you will not
be able to come here so frequently. If you fail to come for one day, I become
very anxious. You were not here yesterday. I was worried to think that you
might be unwell. If you had failed to come today, I would have sent someone to
inquire about you. But if your husband be ailing, if you think that he wants
your presence there, then you will have to go to Kalighat.
When I told
her that there was no such difficulty, and that all I feared was popular
criticism for staying too long with my sister, she asked me not to mind it and
advised me to stay on at Calcutta for a month more.
A
Brahmacharin came up and said to the Mother that a certain woman devotee wanted
to see her. The Mother was very tired and lay on her bed. She was evidently
annoyed and said, "Dear me! I am to see another person! I shall die!"
She sat on her bed. A little later, a well-dressed lady entered the room and
bowed down to her, touching the Mother's feet with her head.
"You could salute from a distance," said
the Mother. "Why do you touch the feet?" The Mother asked her about
her welfare.
Devotee:
You know Mother, that my husband has been ailing for some time past.
Mother:
Yes, I have heard of that. How is he now? What is the trouble with him? Who is
treating him?
Devotee: He
has been suffering from diabetes. His feet have swollen. The doctors say that
it is a dangerous disease. But I do not care for their opinions. You must cure
him, Mother. Please say that he will be cured.
Mother: I do
not know anything, my child. The Master is everything. If he wills, your
husband will be all right. I shall pray to the Master for him.
Devotee: I
am now very happy, Mother. Sri Ramakrishna can never disregard your
prayer.
She began
to weep, putting her head on the feet of the Holy Mother.
The Mother
consoled her and said, "Pray to the Master. He will cure your husband.
What is his diet now?"
Devotee: He
takes Luchi and such other things as are prescribed by the physician.
She soon
took leave of the Holy Mother and went to see Swami Saradananda.
"I am
burning day and night with the pain and misery of others," said the
Mother, and took off the cloth from her body. I was about to rub her body with
the medicated oil when a relative of the lady devotee who had just left,
entered the room to salute her. She had to get up again. No sooner had she left
the room than the Holy Mother lay down again and said, "Let anybody come.
Whoever he may be, I am not going to get up again. What a trouble it is, my
child, to get up again and again with my aching feet! Besides, I feel the
burning sensation on my whole back due to the rashes. Please rub the oil
well"
As I was
rubbing the oil, the talk turned on the lady who had left. The Mother said,
"Her husband is so dangerously ill. She has come here to pray to God for
his recovery. Instead of being prayerful and penitent, she has covered herself
with perfumes. Does this become one who comes to a shrine? Ah! Such is the
nature of your modern people!"
As I was going to take leave of her, the Mother
asked someone to give me Prasada.
23rd August 1918
I went to see the Mother in the evening. Referring
to a woman devotee, she was saying, "She imposes very strict discipline
upon her daughter-in-law. She should not go to such excess. Though she has to
keep an eye upon her, she should also give her a little freedom. She is only a
young girl. Naturally she likes to enjoy some nice things. If the lady becomes
over-strict, she may go away from her or even commit suicide. What can she do
then?"
Looking at
me, she said, "She had painted her feet a little. Is it a crime to do so?
Alas! She cannot even see her husband. The husband has become a monk. I saw my
husband with my own eyes, nursed him, cooked for him and went near him whenever
he permitted me. At other times, I have even stayed in the Nahabat for two
months at a stretch without moving out. I bowed down to him from afar. He used to
say, 'Her name is Sarada. She is Saraswati (Goddess of Learning). That is why
she loves to adorn herself. (On another
occasion, Sri Ramakrishna had told Golap-Ma: "She (Holy Mother) is Sarada-Saraswati.
She is born to bestow knowledge on others. She has hidden her beauty lest
people should look upon her with impure eyes and thus commit sin.").
He had told Hriday, 'See how much money is there in your box. Have a pair of
nice gold armlets made for her.' He was ill then; still he arranged to get the
ornaments made for me for Rs. 300. And mind you, he himself could not touch
money."
"After
the Master's passing away, I was at Kamarpukur. I was to come here to Calcutta,
but many people began to object, 'Oh dear, will you go and stay among those
youthful boys!' But I made up my mind that I would stay here only. Still one
has to respect what society says. So I asked many people. Some began to say,
'Certainly you can go. They are all your disciples.' I merely listened. There
was an old widow (Prasannamayi of the Lahas) in our village. People used to
respect her as a wise and pious person. Later I went and asked her opinion. She
replied, 'Why, you may certainly go. They are your disciples, like your own
children. What is there in this to ask? Of course you can go.' Hearing that all
approved of my moving to Calcutta. And so I came. Ah, for my sake, out of
devotion for their Guru, they cherish even a cat from Jayrambati."
"My
mother used to lament, 'Oh, I gave my daughter in marriage to such a mad
son-in-law. She could not set up a household, nor have children. She could not
even hear herself called 'mother'.' One day the Master heard this and said, 'Oh
mother! Don't grieve on that account. You will see that your daughter will have
so many children that she would be tired of hearing the cries of 'mother,
mother' from them.' What he said has literally come to pass, my dear."
A little
later, as night approached, I took leave of her and came away. Another evening
it was raining heavily. I had a rain-coat on but still my clothes got wet at
the edges. When I went to the Holy Mother, she burst out laughing at the
strange appearance I presented in the rain-coat. But when she felt my wet
clothes as I made Pranam, she was immediately anxious. "Oh, you have got
wet. Change your clothes quickly. Take Radhu's clothes," she said.
"There is no need to change clothes, Mother. I am not at all wet. Just
see!" I assured her. The Holy Mother examined me closely and was
satisfied.
SOURCE: saradadevi.info/GHM_book; SECTION I : Sarayubala Devi
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