(RECORDED BY Dr. UMESH CHANDRA DATTA).
One day at Jayrambati the Mother said, "Look, my child, in my young days I would see a young girl who resembled me moving with me and helping me in all my work. She used to have fun and frolic with me. This continued till I was ten or eleven years old."
One day the Mother said, "Sometime after the passing away of the Master, I began to see the vision of a bearded Sannyasin who asked me to perform
panchatapa. In the beginning I didn't pay much attention to it. I hardly knew what
panchatapa was. But the Sannyasin gradually put pressure on me. So I asked Yogin about
panchatapa, and she said, Very good, Mother, I shall also perform it.' Arrangements were made for
panchatapa. I was then living in Nilambar Babu's house. Blazing fires of dried cow-dung were lighted on four sides, and there was the intense heat of the sun above. After my morning bath I approached the fires and saw them burning brightly. I was seized with much fear. I wondered how I would be able to enter the area and remain seated there until sunset. But repeating the name of the Master, I entered the area and the fires seemed to have lost their heat. I practised this discipline for seven days. But, my child, it made my complexion dark like black ash. After this I didn't see that figure of the Sannyasin again."
Once I asked, "Mother, the Master remarked that those who take refuge in him are living their last birth. Now, what will be the fate of those who take refuge in you?"
Mother: What else will happen, my child? The same is the case here too.
Disciple: Mother, what will happen to those who receive spiritual initiation from you but do not perform Japa and meditation at all?
Mother: What else will happen? Why do you worry so much? The desires in your mind-you must first fulfil them. Later on you will attain to eternal peace in the Ramakrishna Loka. The Master has created a new kingdom for all of you.
A certain devotee forgot the method of counting Japa on his fingers and so wrote me a letter asking me to get it clarified from the