A woman devotee asked her, “Why can’t we perceive you as the Divine Mother?”
Holy Mother replied: “Can everybody recognize divinity? There lay a big diamond at a bathing place. People thought it was an ordinary stone and rubbed the soles of their feet against it after finishing their baths in order to remove dry skin. One day a jeweller went there, saw the precious stone, and realized that it was a valuable diamond.”
Someone asked: “Mother, your relations have such close association with you. Why do they not gain any spiritual wisdom?”
Holy Mother replied: “They are like bamboo and silk-cotton trees. They may grow near a sandal wood tree, but they do not get its essence.”