Tuesday, November 30, 2021

To Attain Happiness and Peace

[Letter] Written [by Holy Mother] in May 1918 in Calcutta to Kamala Bala Sengupta in Sadarpur:

My dear daughter,

I am pleased to receive your letter. Always try to lose yourself in the name of the Master. Make an effort to see him in everything and every being in this world. Try to know that both good and bad are the results of your karma, which come from God. When you understand this, you will attain happiness and peace. I hope you are doing well.

Please accept my blessings,

Your Mother 


                    - ‘Sri Sarada Devi and Her Divine Play’ by Swami Chetanananda, P508





Saturday, November 27, 2021

Master’s Hairs

After spending a year in the holy places of the north, they [Holy Mother and other devotess] proceeded to Calcutta by way of Allahabad, where at the sacred confluence of the Ganges and the Yamuna, the Mother offered the remaining portion of the Master’s nails and hair. 

Of this the Mother said, ‘Is the Master’s hair an ordinary thing? When I went to Prayag (Allahabad) after his demise, I carried with me his hair for immersion in the holy water. As I took up the hair in hand with a view to offering it in the placid water of the confluence of the Ganges and the Yamuna, a wave leaped up unawares and took away the hair from my hand and hid itself again in the placid water around. That holy place snatched away that thing from my hand for it own sanctification.’  

                       - ‘Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi’ by Swami Gambhirananda, P145