Take care about your food. This disease is not fatal, but it is painful.
While living at the Koalpara monastery it was my duty to clean the kitchen and scour the brass pots two times daily. It was rainy season. As my hands got often wet by scouring the pots, they became sore. I was suffering. One day I went to Jayrambati. When I made Pranam to the Mother, she enquired, "Well, dear, are you keeping all right?"
Disciple: No, not quite.
Mother: Why? Are you having pain in your stomach again?
Disciple: No, Mother, I'm not suffering from colic now, but my hands have developed sores because of frequent contact with water. I have to scour and clean cooking pots two times a day.
Mother: 'A man eager to keep away from acid food builds a home under a tamarind tree'-so goes the proverb. Whereas you have renounced the world to repeat God's name, you are now entangled in activities. The Ashrama has become your second world. People come to a monastery renouncing their families, but they become so deluded that they don't want to leave the Ashrama. Since you are not keeping good health, you should go to Daharkund. There you should teach the boys as much as you can, and practise meditation and worship.
Disciple: Mother, I wish to go to a lonely place and perform austerities, but I'm not keeping good health.
Mother: Now, keep yourself engaged with some work, and when you feel a strong urge, you may go for practising austerities.
Disciple: I perform Japa but my mind doesn't become steady.
Mother: Whether the mind becomes steady or not, practise Japa. It will be nice if you can perform a certain number of Japa daily.
Disciple: Bless me so that I may have a vision of the Master.
Mother: You have seen him in dream; well, you will have his vision.
Another day on my way to Jayrambati I was thinking that I would be very glad if I could do some personal service to the Mother. On arriving at her house, I found her sitting with her legs stretched out. A cup containing massaging oil was kept by her side. I began to rub her leg with the oil. The Mother said, "See, I feel acute pain in this leg. Rub oil on this leg putting some pressure."