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Sarada Devi Biography

Sarada Devi ; Sharodā Debi (help·info)) (22 December 1853 – 21 July 1920), born Saradamani Mukhopadhyay , was the wife and spiritual counterpart of Ramakrishna Paramhansa, a nineteenth-century mystic of Bengal. Sarada Devi is also reverentially addressed as the Holy Mother (Sri Maa ) by the followers of the Ramakrishna monastic order. Sarada Devi or Sri Sri Ma 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 Sri Sarada Math and Ramakrishna Sarada Mission situated at Dakshineshwar is based on the ideals and life of Sri Sri Ma. Sarada Devi played an important role in the growth of the Ramakrishna Movement.

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Pray to God and make your heart as pure as the star.

God, Heart, Pray, Praying, Pure, Stars

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.

Clouds, Driven, Names, Pleasures, Wind

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.

Differences, Man, Men, Mere, Play

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.

Conjured, Men, Possession, Simple, Truth, World

My child, I bless you from my heart that you live long, attain devotion, and enjoy peace. Peace is the principal thing. One needs peace alone.

Bless, Child, Children, Heart, Long

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.

Devotion, Sorrow, Surrender

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.

Desires, Found, Like, Long, Men, Two

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.

Beautiful, Glory, God, People, Strong

In one word, one should desire of God desirelessness. For desire alone is at the root of all suffering. It is the cause of repeated births and deaths. It is the obstacle in the way of liberation.

Desire, Root, Roots, Suffering, Word

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

Desire, Gets, Like, Moving, Wheel, World

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.

Evil, Gone, Deeds, Follow, Death

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

Children, Goal, Have Faith, Child, Cheap

One should not hurt others even by words. One must not speak an unpleasant truth unnecessarily.

Compassion, Hurt, Speak, Unnecessarily, Words

Give up this dry discussion, this hodge-podge of philosophy. Who has been able to know God by reasoning? Even sages like Suka and Vyasa are at best like big ants trying to carry away a few grains of sugar from a large hea

Ants, Giving Up, Hea, Philosophy, Suka, Trying

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

Grace, Praying, Should, God, Pray

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.

Free, Husband, Illusion, Wife, World

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

Forbearance, My Son, Son, Virtue

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.

Afraid, Birth, Human, Mind, Names, Suffering

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.

Attains, Awakening, Becomes, Doe, Mind, Two

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.

Book, Creates, Learn, Reading, Real, World

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