Life of Sri Maa - 11

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Life of Sri Maa - 11

 

Sarada Devi's long years at Dakshineswar were spent in the Nahabat

(music tower), a room about seventyfive feet north of the Master's room.

It was a small room about fifty square feet, the ceiling nine feet and the

door so low that Sarada Devi knocked her head against the door-post several

times before she got quite used to it. In that stuffy room, she kept her

supplies and necessaries. She also worshipped, meditated and slept there.

Often, two or three of the Master's women devotees spent the night with her

in her room. In spite of all hardships she underwent, she would often speak

of her life at Dakshineswar as the best period of her life.

 

One of her tasks was to cook food for the Master. In later days,

she had to cook for many of his young disciples also. Golap-ma, Gauri-ma,

Yogin-ma and Aghoremani Devi used to keep her company and help her in her

in her work whenever they happened to vist Dakshineswar. The young Latu

(later Swami Adbhutananda), who began living at Dakshineswar, used to knead

the flour, wash the dishes and do the errands of a house-boy. One day Latu

was meditating by the bank of the Ganga. The Master happened to pass by and

said to him: `Look, Latu, the one on whom you are meditating is here now

sweating over the flour.' He took Latu to the Nahabat and said to Sarada

Devi: `He is a pure-souled boy. Whenever you need any help, ask him.' Latu

became a member of Sarada Devi's household.

 

 

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Extracts from the book : Sri Sarada Devi (A biography in pictures)

Advaita Ashrama, Calcutta (http://www.advaitaonline.com/).

 

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