Talks Excerpt 539. Swamiji says: Of all the Avatars, ONLY Holy Mother said, ‘I am the Mother of the wicked’.

From Mother Radha’s recordings of Swamiji.

[Swamiji continues speaking about Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi].

Once, when Holy Mother was on the roof of the house where she lived, Girish’s little son saw Mother from the nearby building where they lived. He wanted to go to Holy Mother and forced Girish to take him there. Girish thought, ‘How can I see the Holy Mother? I am not worthy to behold this divine form.’ Since his son made him go to Mother, he bowed down to her with tears in his eyes and felt blessed. Later the same Holy Mother blessed him, purified him, and served him personally.

[Girish had asked Sri Ramakrishna to reincarnate as his son. Some time after the Master’s passing a son was born to Girish. The boy was mute. He was the one who insisted through signs, on being taken to the Holy Mother. He passed away at about four years of age.]

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, living scripture’. It is speaking to us now, it is not sleeping. 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 [the evil] 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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These recordings or the excerpts from them, were made from the early 1970s onward, by Mother Radha, a close devotee of Swamiji’s and edited for uploading here by our gurubhai and her son, Brother Tim. Please be mindful that what Swamiji was saying may have been specific to an individual or a group of people with him, at the time.