An Ideal Husband

 The Master was interested in nothing but God. When I asked him what I should do with the saris, conch shell bracelets, and other things with which he had worshipped me when he performed the Shodashi Puja, he said after a little thought, “Well, you can give them to your mother, but be careful that when presenting the gifts, you don’t look upon her as your personal mother but as the Mother of the universe.” I did so. Such was his teaching.

My mother would grieve, “I have married my Sarada to such a crazy husband that she can’t enjoy ordinary married life or have any children and hear them call her ‘Mother’.” 

One day the Master heard her and said: “Don’t grieve over that, Mother. Your daughter will have so many children, you will see, that her ears will ache at hearing the cry of ‘Mother’.” He was quite right. Everything that he said has come to pass.

               - Holy Mother, ‘Sri Sarada Devi and Her Divine Play’ by Swami Chetanananda, P123