closed to me many Mantras and remarked, "I have given you everything I had in my bag. Will you give spiritual initiation to others?"
Disciple: No, Mother. I myself haven't achieved anything.
Mother: Well, what's the harm in giving initiation? You can give.
Disciple: Mother, please make me renounce everything so that I don't have attachment for anything.
Mother: You are an all-renouncer already. Will you grow two horns now?
Another day at Jayrambati I asked the Mother, "How can one realize God?-through worship, Japa or meditation?
Mother: By none of these.
Disciple: Then how?
Mother: God is realized only through His grace. Nonetheless, one must perform Japa and meditation, for they remove the impurities of one's mind. One must practise spiritual disciplines such as worship, Japa, and meditation. As one gets the fragrance of a flower by handling it or the scent of the sandalwood by rubbing it against a stone, similarly one becomes spiritually awakened by continuously contemplating on the Divine. But you can become illumined right now, if you become desireless.
One day at Jayrambati after my meal I was about to remove the used plate, when the Mother prevented me, catching hold of my hand, and taking the plate herself. I said, "Why should you do this, Mother? I shall remove it." At this she said, "What, after all, have I done for you? A child, as you know, soils the lap of its mother. And how much more besides! You are indeed a rare treasure even to the gods."