THE GOSPEL OF THE HOLY MOTHER
SECTION I
CONVERSATIONS: SECOND SERIES
(RECORDED BY SWAMI ARUPANANDA)
JAYRAMBATI
1st February,1907, 8-30a.m.
UNCLE Varada said to me "The Mother has sent for you."
I went inside the inner apartment and found the Holy Mother standing at the door of her room waiting for me. As I saluted her, she asked, "Where do you come from?" I told her the name of the district of my native village.
Mother: I suppose you are now reading the teachings of the Master.
I did not reply to these words. She spoke to me as if we had known each other for a long time. I still remember her tender and affectionate look.
Mother: Do you belong to the Kayastha caste?
Disciple: Yes.
Mother: How many brothers have you?
Disciple: Four.
Mother: Sit down and take some refreshments.
With these words the Mother spread a small carpet on the floor of the verandah and gave me some luchis and sweets that had been offered in the shrine on the previous night.
I told the Mother that I had walked all the way from Tarakeswar on the previous day, spending the night in the village of Deshra, to the northwest of Jayrambati, in the house of a young man whom I had met at the railway station of Haripal. The Mother listened to all this and said to me, after I had finished my refreshments, 'Don't bathe now; you have walked a great deal.' Then she gave me a betel leaf to chew.
She sent for me again after the noonday worship. After the offerings were over, she first of all served me food. She served it with her own hands, on a Sal leaf on the porch of her room. "Eat well,