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Sarada Devi ; Sharodā Debi , born Kshemankari/ Thakurmani/ Saradamani Mukhopadhyay , was the wife and spiritual consort of Sri Ramakrishna, a nineteenth-century Hindu mystic and saint. Sarada Devi is also reverentially addressed as the Holy Mother by the followers of the Sri Ramakrishna monastic order. Sri Sarada Devi or Sri Sri Maa is one of the notable woman saints and mystics of the nineteenth century. She paved the way for the future generation of women to take up monasticity as the means and end of life. In fact the Sri Sarada Math and Ramakrishna Sarada Mission situated at Dakshineshwar is based on the ideals and life of Sri Sri Maa. Sri Sarada Devi played an important role in the growth of the Ramakrishna Movement.

Sri Sarada Devi was born in Joyrambati. At the age of five she was betrothed to Sri Ramakrishna, whom she joined at Dakshineswar Kali temple when she was in her late teens. According to her biographers, both lived lives of unbroken continence, showing the ideals of a householder and of the monastic ways of life. After Sri Ramakrishna's death, Maa Sarada Devi stayed most of the time either at Joyrambati or at the Udbodhan office, Calcutta. The disciples of Sri Ramakrishna regarded her as their own mother, and after their guru's death looked to her for advice and encouragement. The followers of the Ramakrishna movement and a large section of devotees across the world worship Sri Sri Maa Sarada Devi as an incarnation of the Adi Parashakti or the Divine Mother. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. December 1853 – 20. July 1920
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Famous Sarada Devi Quotes

“Let me tell you one thing. There is great complexity in this creation. The Master does one thing through one man and another thing through another person. Oh, it is so inscrutable!”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 312]

“Do you notice this human body? Today it is and tomorrow it is not. And the world is full of misery and pain. Why should one be eager to have another birth? The body is never free from its attendant troubles.”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Nikhilananda, Holy Mother, 204]

“First offer to God whatever you eat. One must not eat unoffered food. As your food is, so will be your blood. From pure food you get pure blood, pure mind, and strength. Pure mind begets ecstatic love”

Sarada Devi

prema-bhakti
Women Saints of East and West

“God cannot be realized without love. Yes, sincere love.”

Sarada Devi

[A Short Life of the Holy Mother, 88]

“My son, forbearance is a great virtue; there's no other like it.”

Sarada Devi

[In the Company of the Holy Mother, 124-125]

“Does it matter in the least to God whether you believe or not? Even the sage Suka Deva was to Him like a big ant at the most. Infinite is He. How much can you understand of Him?”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 327]

Sarada Devi Quotes about God

“The goal of life is to realize God and to be always immersed in thought in Him.”

Sarada Devi

Women Saints of East and West

“Realization of God cannot be achieved without ecstatic love for Him.”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 290]

“An unmarried person is half free whether he prays to God or not. He will advance towards Him with rapid strides when he feel a little drawn towards Him.”

Sarada Devi

Women Saints of East and West

“Does one get faith by mere studying of books? Too much reading creates confusion. The Master used to say that one should learn from the scriptures that God alone is real and the world illusory.”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 348]

“The grace of God is the thing that is needful. One should pray for the grace of God.”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 301]

“It is best therefore to surrender all desires at the feet of God. He will do whatever is best for us. But one may pray for devotion and detachment. These cannot be classed as desires.”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 349]

Sarada Devi Quotes about the world

“The world is going on because not all can be free of desires. People with desires are born again and again.”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Nikhilananda, Holy Mother, 217]

“What an illusion Mahamaya has conjured up! Here is this infinite world, and what one claims as his possession will be left behind at death. Still men cannot understand this simple truth.”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Nikhilananda, Holy Mother, 121]

“This world is moving around like a wheel. That indeed is the last birth in which one gets completely rid of all desires.”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 297]

“The whole world is a dream; even this (the waking state) is a dream … What you dreamt last night does not exist now.”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 302]

“The world is the Lord's. He created it for His own play. We are mere pawns in His game. Wherever He keeps us and in whatever way He does so, we have to abide by it contentedly.”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Saradeshananda, The Holy Mother's Reminiscences, Vedanta Kesari, 1976-1981]

“Everything, husband, wife, or even the body, is only illusory. These are all shackles of illusion. Unless you can free yourself from these bondages, you will never be able to go to the other shore of the world.”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 261]

Sarada Devi: Trending quotes

“When someone speaks from the heart, one should listen to them”

Sarada Devi

Mother’s Love – Swami Ishanananda http://www.chennaimath.org/category/media/page/2,

Heart

“You should work, no doubt. Work saves the mind from going astray. But prayer and meditation also are necessary. You must sit for meditation at least once in the morning and once in the evening. That will be like the helm of a boat. When one sits in meditation in the evening, there is self-examination in respect of the work done in the course of the day.”

Sarada Devi

Women Saints of East and West

“Certainly you will have doubts. There will be questionings and faith will return again. That is how faith is established.”

Sarada Devi

[In the Company of the Holy Mother, 305]

Faith , Question

Sarada Devi Quotes

“Each has to get the results of the actions he earned for this life. A pin at least must prick where a wound from a sword was due.”

Sarada Devi

[In the Company of the Holy Mother, 348]

Life

“The mind is everything. It is in the mind alone that one feels pure and impure. A man, first of all, must make his own mind guilty and then alone can he see another man's guilt.”

Sarada Devi

Women Saints of East and West

Feeling

“We have to surrender ourselves completely to the Lord with faith and devotion in Him, serve others to the best of our capacity, and never be a source of sorrow to anybody.”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Saradeshananda, The Holy Mother's Reminiscences, Vedanta Kesari, 1976-1981]

Faith

“Pray to God with tears in your eyes whenever you want illumination or find yourself faced with any doubt or difficulty. The Lord will remove all your impurities, assuage your mental anguish, and give you enlightenment.”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 344]

God , Tear

“Practise meditation, and by and by your mind will be so calm and fixed that you will find it hard to keep away from meditation.”

Sarada Devi

Women Saints of East and West

“One who makes a habit of prayer will easily overcome all difficulties and remain calm and unruffled in the midst of the trials of life.”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Aseshananda, Glimpses of a Great Soul; a Portrait of Swami Saradananda, 43]

Life

“One must have reverence for one's Guru. … One's chance of salvation lies in one's reverence for him. Observe how the disciples of the Master revere him. Out of this reverence for him they revere not only all the members of his family, but even the cats from his home-district!”

Sarada Devi

[In the Company of the Holy Mother, 178]

Family , Home , Cats , Chance

“In the course of time one does not feel even the existence of God. After attaining enlightenment one sees that gods and deities are all Maya.”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 297]

God , Feeling , Time

“One must be patient like the earth. What iniquities are being perpetrated on her! Yet she quietly endures them all. Man, too, should be like that.”

Sarada Devi

[The Message of Holy Mother, 17]

“The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play.”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 253]

Death , Soul

“The body means the existence of desire, otherwise it would not have existed. It all ends when one no longer has any desires. C84 In the Company of the Holy Mother. By Her Direct Disciples. Calcutta : Advaita Ashrama, 1980”

Sarada Devi

[In the Company of the Holy Mother, 84]

“Don't puzzle the mind with too many inquiries. One finds it difficult to put one single thing into practising, but dares invite distraction by filling the mind with too many things.”

Sarada Devi

Women Saints of East and West

“We suffer as a result of our own actions; it is unfair to blame anybody for it.”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Saradeshananda, The Holy Mother's Reminiscences, Vedanta Kesari, 1976-1981]

Suffering

“You can practise pranayama a little, but not much, otherwise the brain will get heated. If the mind becomes calm of itself, what is then the necessity of practising pranayama? The practise of pranayama and asana often brings occult powers, and occult powers lead one astray.”

Sarada Devi

Women Saints of East and West

“Desire may be compared to a minute seed. It is like a big banyan tree growing out of a seed, which is no bigger than a dot.”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 292]

Tree

“Many take the name of God after receiving blows in life. But he who can offer his mind like a flower at the feet of the Lord right up from childhood is indeed blessed.”

Sarada Devi

Women Saints of East and West

Life , God , Flowers , Childhood

“Even the impossible becomes possible through devotion.”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 229]

“Why do people argue? Even the wisest of men have not found God through argument! Is God a subject for argument?”

Sarada Devi

[In the Company of the Holy Mother, 200]

Men , God , People

“Even Avataras, saints, and sages have to undergo the ordeal of suffering, for they take upon themselves the burden of sins of omission and commission of ordinary human beings and thereby sacrifice themselves for the good of humanity.”

Sarada Devi

[Thus Spake the Holy Mother, 72-73]

Suffering

“There is no treasure equal to contentment and no virtue equal to fortitude.”

Sarada Devi

[Holy Mother, Prabuddha Bharatha, 92, Advaita Ashrama, 1969]

“Open your grief-stricken heart to the Lord. Weep and sincerely pray, 'O Lord, draw me towards You; give me peace of mind.' By doing so constantly you, will gradually attain peace of mind.”

Sarada Devi
Peace , Heart , Drawing , Sincerity

“To myself, the stateliness of her courtesy and her great open mind are almost as wonderful as her sainthood.”

Sarada Devi

Sister Nivedita
Saying On Sarada Devi

Sister

“Whether you jump into water or are pushed into it, your cloth will get drenched. Is it not so? Meditate every day, as your mind is yet immature. Constant meditation will make the mind one-pointed.”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 351-352]

Water , Clothes

“One suffers as a result of one's own actions. So, instead of blaming others for such sufferings, one should pray to the Lord and depending entirely on His grace, try to bear them patiently and with forbearance under all circumstances.”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Saradeshananda, The Holy Mother's Reminiscences, Vedanta Kesari, 1976-1981]

Suffering , Dependency

“God is one's very own. It is the eternal relationship. He is everyone's own. One realizes Him in proportion to the intensity of one's feeling for Him.”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 302]

God , Feeling

“People complain about their griefs and sorrows and how they pray to God but find no relief from pain. But grief itself is a gift from God. It is the symbol of His compassion.”

Sarada Devi

[In the Company of the Holy Mother, 220-221]

God , Pain , People

“You see, my son, it is not a fact that you will never face dangers. Difficulties always come, but they do not last forever. You will see that they pass away like water under a bridge.”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 370]

Water

“However strong or beautiful this body may be, its culmination is in those three pounds of ashes. And still people are so attached to it. Glory be to God.”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 261]
Context: In Hindus, when a person dies he is cremated in fire. Sarada Devi is referring to this as "three pounds of ashes".

God , People , Beauty , Strong

“The mantra purifies the body. Man becomes pure by repeating the name of God. So repeat His name always.”

Sarada Devi

Women Saints of East and West

God

“What else does one obtain by realization of God? Does one grow two horns? No, the mind becomes pure, and through a pure mind one attains knowledge and awakening.”

Sarada Devi

Women Saints of East and West

God , Knowledge

“No one can suffer for all time. No one will spend all his days on this earth in suffering. Every action brings its own result, and one gets one's opportunities accordingly.”

Sarada Devi

[In the Company of the Holy Mother, 66-67]

Suffering , Time

“He who has really prayed to the Master, even once, has nothing to fear. By, praying to him constantly one gets ecstatic love (Prema Bhakti) through his grace.”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 363]

Love , Fear

“The Mother of the universe is the Mother of all. From Her have come out both good and evil.”

Sarada Devi

[In the Company of the Holy Mother, 115]

Universe , Evil

“One cannot escape from the effects of one's past karma. But if a person lives a prayerful life, he gets off with only the prick of a thorn in the leg where he was to suffer from a deep cut.”

Sarada Devi

Women Saints of East and West

Life , Suffering , Past , Personality

“He who thinks always of the Lord, which way can evil come to him?”

Sarada Devi

[Holy Mother, Prabuddha Bharatha, 92, Advaita Ashrama, 1969]

Way , Thinking , Evil

“The happiness of the world is transitory. The less you become attached to the world, the more you enjoy peace of mind.”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 226]

World , Peace , Happiness

“Don't be afraid. Human birth is full of suffering and one has to endure everything patiently, taking the Name of God. None, not even God in human form can escape the sufferings of the body and mind.”

Sarada Devi

[Thus Spake the Holy Mother, 72-73]

God , Birth , Suffering

“Everything depends on the mind. Nothing can be achieved without purity of mind. It is said, "The aspirant may have received the grace of the guru, the Lord and the Vaishnavas; but he comes to grief without the grace of 'one' ". That 'one' is the mind. The mind of the aspirant should be gracious to him.”

Sarada Devi

Women Saints of East and West

Dependency

“No doubt, God alone has become all these objects, animate and inanimate, but in the relative world all beings act and suffer according to their past Karma and innate tendencies.”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 361]

God , World , Suffering , Past

“He who will pray to God eagerly will see Him.”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 231]

God

“A person may have no relatives anywhere, but Mahamaya may make him keep a cat and thus make him worldly. This is how She plays!”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Nikhilananda, Holy Mother, 218]

Cats , Personality

“Is faith so cheap, my child? Faith is the last word. If one has faith, the goal is practically reached.”

Sarada Devi

[The Temple Dedication Souvenir]

Faith

“When God first created man, He endowed him with the spirit of goodness. As a result, men were born with wisdom …. they took the Name of God and …. were liberated from the bonds of life. God thought, 'This will not do…. In the end….. He mingled in profuse quantities of the spirit of materialism and that of vanity. Now the game of life went on with a swing!”

Sarada Devi

[In the Company of the Holy Mother, 212-213]

Life , Wisdom , Men , God

“As long as a man has desires there is no end to his transmigration. It is the desires alone that make him take one body after another. There will be rebirth for a man if he has even the desire to eat a piece of candy.”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 292]

“Such is life, here today, gone tomorrow! Nothing goes with one, except one's merit and demerit; good and evil deeds follow one even after death.”

Sarada Devi

[In the Company of the Holy Mother, 124-125]

Life , Death , Evil

“As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.”

Sarada Devi

Women Saints of East and West

Pleasure

“Rebirth is inevitable so long as one has desires. It is like taking the soul from one pillow-case and putting it into another. Only one or two out of many men can be found who are free from all desires.”

Sarada Devi

[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 292]

Men , Soul

“If one calls upon Him repeatedly, He becomes compassionate; and so a devoted attachment comes into being. This love for love's sake should be hidden from all eyes.”

Sarada Devi

[In the Company of the Holy Mother, 295]

Love

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