In the middle of 1885 Yogin-ma and a few other women devotees went by boat with the Master to attend a Vaishnava festival at Panihati, a few miles north of Calcutta. They watched the Master as he sang and danced among the huge crowd. A few days later they again enjoyed his holy company during the Chariot Festival of Lord Jagannath at Balaram Basu’s house. The Master spent that night at Balaram’s house, and the next morning he returned to Dakshineswar. Before he left, the women devotees saluted him and bade him farewell, but Yogin-ma, feeling an irresistible attraction for the Master, followed him. Seeing her behind him, the Master said in an ecstatic mood: “Blissful Mother! Blissful Mother!” and saluted her. Yogin-ma bowed down to him. Then the Master said to her, “Why don’t you come, O Mother, why don’t you come with me?”
While the Master went to the boat that had been hired for him, Yogin-ma hurried back to Balaram’s house and informed Balaram’s wife that she was going to Dakshineswar with the Master. Another woman asked to accompany her, and they both ran through the street so they could reach the boat before it left. On the way to Dakshineswar Yogin-ma said to the Master: “I want to call on God more and put my mind wholly on Him, but it is hard to control the mind. What shall I do?” Sri Ramakrishna replied in a sweet voice: “Why don’t you surrender to Him? Be like a cast-off leaf in a gale. Do you know what that is like? A cast-off leaf lies on the ground and flies away as the wind carries it. Similarly, one should depend on God. Let the mind move as the power of divine consciousness moves it. That’s all.” (BG 18.66)
When the boat reached Dakshineswar, Yogin-ma and her companion went to the nahabat to see the Holy Mother, and the Master went to bow down to the Divine Mother in the temple. After returning to his room he learned from the Holy Mother that there were no vegetables for their meal. The Master asked Yogin-ma and the other woman, “Could you go to the market?” They immediately agreed. At that time in India aristocratic women did not go out to shop. If they went anywhere they would be carried in a palanquin or driven in a carriage, their faces covered by a veil. But because Sri Ramakrishna had asked them, they walked to the market and bought some vegetables, which the Holy Mother cooked for the Master and the devotees. In the evening Yogin-ma and her companion walked home. Sri Ramakrishna used to say, “A person cannot be perfect as long as he is subject to shame, hatred, and fear.” In this way the Master freed his women devotees from such feelings. (Source: They Lived with God)