Instrument of Divine Mother

Golap-ma: “Mother says that the Master is always with you. You have still many more things to do for the good of the world.”

Swamiji: “I see directly, I feel, and I realize that I am a mere instrument of the Master. Sometimes I am myself surprised how such wonderfully great things are taking place and how in the West men and women are ready to devote their lives to this noble cause and to help me voluntarily in spreading the message of the Master. I went to America with the blessing of the Mother, and when I succeeded in moving the people there through my speeches and received tremendous ovations from them, I remembered at once the power of the Mother’s blessings, which had worked such a miracle. When I rested in silence, I could clearly perceive that the same Divine Power, whom the Master called the ‘Divine Mother’, was guiding me there.”

Golap-ma conveyed the Mother’s reply: “The Master is not separate or different from the Divine Mother. The Master is doing all these great things through you. You are his chosen disciple and son. He loved you intensely and predicted before all that you were one day destined to be a distinguished world teacher.”

[Conversation during Swami Vivekananda’s visit to Holy Mother at Baghbazar, Calcutta, 1897]

                    - ‘Sri Sarada Devi and Her Divine Play’ by Swami Chetanananda, P198