Saturday, 11 October 2014

Sri Sarada Devi: Veiling wisdom with a mother’s love

Pic re shared courtesy: www.vedanta-atlanta.o


I've taken up this blog in fear and trembling. Writing about Sri Ma Sarada Devi is  a case of the foolish rushing in where angels fear to tread. I hope sincerely that her  great mother heart will forgive my myopic vision and  many lapses.  Outwardly, she seemed so ordinary, but that was just a way to hide her divine nature.  She  was not just  wife and mother but also  nun and Guru. Her birth was preordained.  Her mother Shyam Sundari Devi  visited a temple in another village before her birth.  She suddenly had an amazing vision: A small girl dressed in a sari with a red border  jumped from a tree nearby and hugged her.  ”I’m coming to your house!” she said. Shyamsundari Devi lost consciousness and  had to be carried home. After some time  she gave birth to  little Sarada. When Sri Ma was just two years old, her uncle took her to a neighboring village to attend a festival. As luck would have it, Thakur (Sri Ramakrishna) was also present. The uncle, as a jest, asked little Sarada who among the men  there  she would marry. She  stretched out both arms and pointed out to Sri Ramakrishna! She was married  to him when she was just five years old. He was twenty three at that time and engaged in intense sadhana.

Ref: Sri Sarada Devi: The Great Wonder, by Apostles, Monks, Savants, Scholars, Devotees

Artist: Swami Tadatmananda


Pic re shared courtesy: www.vedanta-atlanta.org



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