Sri Ma’s room
in Dakshineshwar was just 8’ x 6’! It had a small door and no windows. She
cooked in a small part of the narrow verandah surrounding it. And in that
cramped space she hung her belongings, swept the floor, washed the dishes,
served meals, met visitors and cooked for the endless stream of devotees who
came to meet Thakur. Each disciple was special:
Chana dal for Swami Vivekananda and moong dal for Swami Brahmananda.
Every day she made chapattis out of three seers of atta. Sri Ma went through a
period of great hardship after Thakur’s Mahasamadhi. No one had an inkling of her destitution. Such
was her condition that she could not afford to buy salt to season her rice. Her
saris were so badly torn that they could not be stitched. She tied the pieces
together in such a way that no one could see the joints. She once walked from
Burdwan to Kumarpukur because she couldn’t afford to pay for a cart. And yet,
she never complained. She was the very
soul of renunciation. Wasn’t she also कुमारजाकुता ‘Kamarajakuta’
the adamantine will of the Divine Mother?
(Pic re
shared courtesy: www.vedantasacto.com)
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