… the main strands that enter into the complex make-up of her [Holy Mother] personality are her Divinity, her motherliness, her absorption in the Master [Sri Ramakrishna], her artlessness, her simplicity, and her holy innocence which overshadowed her many gifts of both head and heart.
Taking into consideration all these colours in the spectrum of her personality, Swami Premananda once spoke thus of her glory: “You have seen with your own eyes, how this Mother, who is in reality the great Goddess ruling over those who wield the destinies of kings and emperors, has yet chosen to become a poor woman, plastering the house with cow-dung, scouring utensils, winnowing rice and clearing the leavings of the devotees after their meals. She undertakes all these tasks to teach the householders their domestic duties. What infinite endurance, limitless mercy and absolute absence of egotism are there!”
- ‘Sri Sarada Devi The Holy Mother’ by Swami Tapasyananada, P227
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