Starting the Ramakrishna Mission
“Let this association be named after him in whose name, indeed, we have embraced the monastic life, with whom as your Ideal in life you all toil on the field of work from your station in family-life, within twenty years of whose passing away a wonderful diffusion of his holy name and extraordinary life has taken place both in the East and the West. We are the servants of the Lord. Be you all helpers in this cause.”
(Talks, p.51, Swamiji in the meeting convened at Balaram Bose’s house on 1st May, 1897)
“My child, I bless you from my heart that you live long, attain devotion, and enjoy peace. Peace is the principal thing. One needs peace alone”
(Holy Mother on 1st May 1912, p. 126, The Gospel of the Holy Mother)
“Well, so long as one has a body one must suffer, I never even ask him (Sri Ramakrishna) to do away with my troubles. But surely he can appear and comfort us in our sorrows”
(p.72, In the Company of the Holy Mother, Mother’s instruction given on this date)