Swami Shivapadananda on the all-embracing nature of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi

SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA

DAILY READINGS

From Mother Radha's recordings of Swamiji

Day 539

 
 

Swamiji continues speaking on Holy Mother [Sri Sarada Devi]

Early one morning Sri Sarada Devi had had a bath and was combing her hair on the roof of the house where she stayed. The hair was so beautiful. It was long, long, hair and she was untangling it with a comb. It seemed as if this very hair had come to sweep the ground for her bhaktas [devotees]. On a nearby building Girish [Chandra Ghosh, father of Bengali theatre] happened to come up the stairs and caught a glimpse of the blinding beauty of the Holy Mother. His heart and eyes were dazzled and he thought to himself, 'How can I see that beauty? How can I see the Holy Mother? I am not worthy.' So he put his head down and went away. Later the same Holy Mother brought him so near that, after purifying him, he served her personally.

Can you take these qualities and make them your very own? As long as you do not, so long are you guilty of not practising that which is already given and that which is already yours. Remember, any action of the Holy Mother's that you may read about is a 'speaking scripture'. It is speaking to us now, it is not sleeping like other scriptures. It is walking on the face of the Earth in the form of books, in the form of bhaktas.

The people who practise the Holy Mother's teachings forgive everybody. She Herself said, 'I am the Mother of the virtuous and I am the Mother of the sinner.' Go and read the Devi Mahatmyam or any other scripture and find one place where previous avatars[Incarnations] of the Divine Mother have said, 'I am the Mother of the sinners.' It is declared in the scripture: 'Whenever adharma [unrighteousness] comes in the form of evil people I come to destroy them and to uplift dharma.' But here Sri Sarada Devi did not say, 'I have come to destroy them,' she said, 'I will cleanse them and make them my very own. I am the Mother of the pure, I am the Mother of the virtuous and yet I am the Mother of the demon, I am the Mother of the sinner.'

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