Chapter (অধ্যায়): FORESHADOWING THE FUTUREPage: 43 of 89
as she came to the Nahabat she found the Holy
Mother seated at her worship, laughing and
weeping alternately and tears rolling down her
cheeks. Gradually she became quiet and lost in
herself. Evidently it was a state of samadhi. Afterwards
she asked the Holy Mother, How is it,
Mother, that you deceived me by saying you had
no experience of samadhi? The Mother simply
smiled and did not utter any words. In later days
while the Holy Mother, Yogin-Ma and Golap-Ma,
another devotee, were meditating on the terrace
of a house where they stayed at Belur, the Holy
Mother was found to have lost all outward consciousness,
so deep was her meditation. After
some time, regaining partial consciousness, she
said, O Yogin, where are my limbs? Yogin-Ma
narrated afterwards that they began to press her
hands and feet to convince her they existed. It
was long before she came down to the normal
plane.
Only those who were very intimate with her
could witness one or two incidents which
revealed her real spiritual stature, but to all others
she was only a mother.
Her motherliness, which afterwards like a
huge banyan tree gave shelter and refuge to
enumerable weary souls, showed signs of manifesting
even in her early days at Dakshineswar.
So much so, that sometimes the mother in her