When I was 13, I went to Kamarpukur; the Master was then in Dakshineswar. I stayed there for a month and then returned to Jayarambati. After five or six months I returned to Kamarpukur and stayed a month and a half. I lived with my brother-in-law [Rameswar] and sister-in-law [Shakambhari] and others.
I used to think: I am a new bride. How shall I go to Haldarpukur and bathe by myself? One day I left the house by a back door and was worrying about the matter, when eight young maidens suddenly appeared, apparently from nowhere*.
As I started for the tank, four of them walked in front of me and four behind. Thus guarded, I walked to the water and all of us bathed together. Afterwards they brought me home. This continued everyday during that visit to Kamarpukur. I wondered who those girls were, but I could not figure it out.
- Holy Mother,
Sri Sarada Devi and Her Divine Play
by Swami Chetanananda, P42
* According to Hindu mythology, the Divine Mother of the Universe has eight maidens as attendants.
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