Ashu Mitra wrote about an interesting event: “Once we printed some photos of Holy Mother (size 12″ x 15″) from the studio of a European photographer. I gave one copy to the Mother to see; she took it with both hands and then touched it with her forehead. Seeing her childlike action, I suppressed my laughter. When she returned the photo, I asked her, ‘Mother, whose photo is this?’ Like a simple girl, she replied: ‘Why? It is my picture.’ I laughed. She asked, ‘Why are you laughing?’ I replied, ‘Why did you salute it by touching it to your head?’ She also laughed and finally said, ‘The Master also dwells in it.’” (Source: Sri Sarada Devi and Her Divine Play)
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Ramakrishna knew who Holy Mother was, and Holy Mother knew Ramakrishna’s true nature. Once Naresh Chandra Chakrabarty, one of Holy Mother’s disciples, went to Jayrambati. Wishing to accept his worship, the Mother said to him: “I love yellow flowers, and the Master loves white flowers. Please get both kinds of flowers from Kishori.” Naresh rushed to Kishori (later Swami Parameswarananda) and got the flowers from him, and then returned to find the Mother waiting at the same spot. Following the silent instructions of the Mother, Naresh offered yellow flowers at her left foot and white flowers at her right foot. Naresh then fervently prayed: “Mother, I offer to you the results of all my actions in this earthly life and also hereafter.”
Swami Gambhirananda wrote: “By accepting his worship that day, the Mother disclosed indirectly to him the truth of the unity of Shiva and Shakti in her holy person. She wanted the white flowers for the snow-white Shiva who was identical with Sri Ramakrishna, and the yellow ones for the golden-coloured Shakti as embodied in herself.” (Source: Sri Sarada Devi and Her Divine Play)
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On 19 March 1917, Holy Mother wrote to her disciple Manada Shankar Dasgupta: “If you have a keen desire to meditate on my form, do it. There is no difference between me and the Master. The only difference is between the two forms. (BG 9.4, BG 9.5) The Master dwells inside my body.” (Source: Sri Sarada Devi and Her Divine Play)
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