Chapter (অধ্যায়): MARRIAGEPage: 17 of 89
news certainly reached Jayrambati too. But his
wife being so young was perhaps unconcerned
about the happenings at Dakshineswar.
Saradamanis two subsequent visits to
Kamarpukur were at the ages of thirteen and fourteen
years, when both Sri Ramakrishna and his
mother were at Dakshineswar. The next time she
went there, in 1867, she was privileged to stay
with Sri Ramakrishna. When he arrived at
Kamarpukur in that year, his anxious relatives
and friends found that with all his deep religious
feeling he was quite a normal man in his ordinary
dealings. That was a great relief to them. At
this time Saradamani was brought to
Kamarpukur from her fathers house. This might
be, in a sense, her first meeting with her husband.
Sri Ramakrishna lived at Kamarpukur for
about seven months. During this stay he did one
great thing. Though his mind would constantly
soar to the transcendental level so that he was
generally indifferent to anything worldly, when
Saradamani came to Kamarpukur he seriously set
about giving her proper training. Sri Ramakrishna
was by now a sannyasin.1 When his guru,
Totapuri, learnt that he had married, he
remarked: What if you are married! The real test
1. A person who has formally renounced the
world, a monk.