the name of Sri Ramakrishna, which will do you real good.' I said that a couple of times when Girish Babu replied, "Do I not know that?" I said to myself, "Oh, he is fully conscious within !"
Mother: He remained immersed in the thought that was in his mind when he became unconscious. They (referring to Sri Ramakrishna's disciples) all have come from him and will go back to him (i.e. the Master). They all have come from him-from his arms, feet, hair and so forth. They are his limbs, his parts.
UDBODHAN,
Mother's Room
21st February, 1912
It was seven o'clock in the morning. The Holy Mother was seated on the floor near her couch. Swami Nirbhayananda, who had gone to Dwaraka
1 on pilgrimage, sent the Mother some Prasada from the shrine of Dattatreya
2 in the Girnar Hills. The Mother asked, "Who was Dattatreya?"
Disciple: He, like Jada Bharata
3 and others, was a great sage-an Isvarakoti.
Mother: Like some of the children of the Master?
Disciple: Well, how is it that some of the Isvarakotis among the Master's disciples are immersed in worldliness with their wives and children?
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1 Dwaraka is a great place of pilgrimage in Western India, Gujarat. It is reputed to be the place where the palace of Sri Krishna, the greatest of Divine incarnations, stood.
2 A great sage of the Puranas, considered to be a Divine incarnation. Shrines dedicated to him are, however, very rare.
3 'Jada' means 'inert', idiotic. He is called so for the following reason: On account of his attachment to his pet deer, he had to be born as a deer, as explained earlier. Afterwards he again attained the human birth. Though his spiritual evolution was arrested during these births, he had not lost the memory of his glorious attainments in his birth as King Bharata. So when he was again born as man, he was endowed with Divine knowledge at the very birth, but in order to avoid complications from attachments as he got into before, he shunned all associations by pretending to be dumb and senseless. So he was called Jada Bharata. Eventually he gave proof of his great spiritual attainments.