At all
midnight, he heard the jingle of anklets. He ran up the steps of the temple following the
sound. What did he see? He saw Mother Kali as a young girl with flowing hair, looking out
at the river Ganga! From that day Sri Ramakrishna
became a different person. He was fully God-possessed. But people thought that he had
become mad.
Sri Ramakrishna was now twenty-three years old. Some one
said that if he got married he would become all right. So his relatives married him to a
young girt named Saradamani.
When she came to live with him, Sri Ramakrishna said to
her. "Look here; I worship all women as the Divine Mother Kali. I will worship you
also. As the Divine Mother."
Like the ideal Indian wife, Saradamani did not want to
stand in the way of her husbands sadhana. So she dutifully agreed. |