“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]

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Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna 1853–1920

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