Her [Holy Mother's] motherly love obliterated every vestige of the vanity of position from her and endowed her with a readiness to do even menial services to others and to silently forgo her own comforts and conveniences so as to save troubles for others. It has already been already seen how forgetful of self she was in the service of her disciples and relatives.
Once Akshay Kumar Sen, a disciple of hers and the author of the metrical biography of Sri Ramakrishna entitled Ramakrishna Punthi, sent some vegetables to Jayrambati with a coolie woman. As it was evening when she arrived, she was allowed to spend the night at the Mother’s house. Being a malaria patient, she got at night high fever with vomiting. Before others had got up, the Holy Mother went into her room early in the morning and saw the place strewn with the vomit. At once she herself removed the dirt and washed the room with water. There were others in the house to do this work, but she knew that they would scold the woman severely and she wanted to save her from it.
- ‘Sri Sarada Devi The Holy Mother’ by Swami Tapasyananada, P204-05
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