Mother Sri Sarada Devi

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Excerpt from Sister Nivedita's " The Master as I saw Him " on Mothers

power to penetrate a new religious feeling or Idea.

 

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I first realized this gift in the Holy Mother, on the occasion of a

visit that she paid us in recent years, on the afternoon of a certain

Easter-Day. Before that, probably, I had always been too much

absorbed, when with her, in striving to learn what she represented,

to think of observing her in the contrary position. On this

particular occasion, however, after going over our whole house, the

Mother and her party expressed a desire to rest in the chapel, and

hear something of the meaning of the Christian festival. This was

followed by Easter Music, and singing, with our small French organ.

And in the swiftness of her comprehension and the depth of her

sympathy with these resurrection hymns, unimpeded by any foreignness

or unfamiliarity in them, we saw revealed for the first time, one of

the most impressive aspects of the great religious culture of Sarada

Devi. The same trait came out again one evening, when in the midst of

her little circle the Holy Mother asked guru-bhagini and myself, to

describe to her a European wedding. With much fun and laughter,

personating now the " Christian brahmin " , and again the bride and

bridegroom, we complied. But we were neither of us prepared for the

effect of the marriage vow, " For better for worse, for richer for

poorer, in sickness and in health - till death do us part, " were

words that drew exclamations of delight from all about us. But none

appreciated them as did Mother. Again and again she had them repeated

to her. " Oh the Dharmic words! The righteous words! " she s