After
Thakur’s Mahasamadhi, Sri Ma wanted to wear the white sari of the widow and
remove her bangles according to custom. She had a vision of Thakur. He said:
“What are you doing? Is it that I have gone anywhere? I have merely gone from
this room to that as it were…Don’t you remove your bracelets. She, whose
husband is Krishna Himself, can never become a widow.” To the end of her life
she wore a red bordered sari and bangles to indicate that Thakur’s body had
been cremated but his spirit was alive. He lived and lives in the hearts of his
devotees. In Sri Ma’s life the ideas of both the Virgin Mother and the
Resurrection find a rational basis. She was a chaste nun who was and is the
spiritual mother of thousands. In Anirvan’s beautiful hymn to Sri Ma: “A corona
of the Hidden Light/Thou art Aditi, the Virgin Mother of Gods and Man/ Aditi
whose shadow is Immortality and Death/ Aditi, the Spirit of the Earth whose
golden bosom shines in the empyrean height…” (p.222)
Ref: Sri Sarada Devi: The
Great Wonder, by Apostles, Monks, Savants, Scholars, Devotees
Header:
Swami Vivekananda, “A Hymn to Mother”
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