Chapter (অধ্যায়): RELATIONSHIP WITH THE MASTERPage: 26 of 89
And what was the attitude of Sri Ramakrishna
towards her? Never for a moment did he look
upon her as a wife, except for the fact that he
owned a duty to her as regards her training in
matters spiritual as well as earthly. His consciousness
regarding Saradamani swung between
anxious solicitude for one who needed care, and
great reverence for one who was the embodiment
of the Divine Mother. Though he would give her
earnest instructions in all matters, with what
reverence did he look upon her! My very devotion
to God will take wings, if her feelings are even
slightly hurt, Sri Ramakrishna used to say. How
do you look upon me? Saradamani once asked
Sri Ramakrishna as she was serving him massaging
his feet. The same Divine Mother who is staying
at the temple is now massaging me, came the
prompt reply from Sri Ramakrishna. To him there
was no difference between Saradamani and the
Deity in the Kali temple.
But this was not the outcome of mere religious
sentimentalisman artificial attempt to