Miss MacLeod loved to talk and was free with Holy Mother. Later she related to Romain Rolland a conversation she once had with Holy Mother regarding the difference between Ramakrishna and Vivekananda. As they had no common language, someone always acted as an interpreter. Through the interpreter Miss MacLeod said to Holy Mother: “Your husband had the best part; he only had to speak sweet words in India among his fellow men; that is why it was joy for him. Vivekananda’s mission was more painful. He had to be the propagator of Indian thought abroad, among strange and hostile people. His role was the more heroic.”
“Yes,” the Mother answered. “Swamiji was the greatest. My husband used to say that he was the body and Vivekananda was the head.”
- ‘Sri Sarada Devi and Her Divine Play’ by Swami Chetanananda, P215
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