the daughter of Trailokya (son of Mathurbabu) placing flowers at her feet (June, 1881).
1 Ramlal became the permanent priest of the Kali Temple. That turned his head! He was elated with the thought, "How grand! I am now the priest of Mother Kali!", and began to neglect the Master. The Master would be lying down somewhere in an ecstatic mood, and -, his food would remain uneaten. It would finally become stale and dry up. There was no one else at the Kali Temple to look after him, so the Master suffered much. He began to send word for me through people coming to those parts, to rejoin him at Dakshineswar.
Through Lakshman Pyne of Kamarpukur, he sent the message, "I am suffering here. After becoming a priest, Ramlal has joined the group of other priests of the Temple. He does not now look after me much. You must come. Take a litter or a palanquin. I shall bear the cost-be it ten rupees or twenty." Hearing this earnest call, at last I came to Dakshineswar(in February or March,
1882). I was coming after a lapse of a year.
Disciple.. Where was the Master when Rani Rasmani passed away?
Mother.. He was at Dakshineswar then. I heard from him, as also from some others, that at the time of Rasmani's death, suddenly the lamps in the Kali Temple at the Kalighat got blown out, and the Mother revealed Herself to Rasmani. All her relatives too passed away at the Kalighat residence, with the exception of Mathur Babu, who breathed his last at Janbazar.
BELUR MATH
16th October, 1912, (Wednesday)
It was the time of the Durga Puja. That day was the day of Bodhan.
2The Mother was expected at the Math in the evening.
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1 It is usual to adore little Brahmana girls as symbols of the Divine Mother. Trailokya. a non-brahmana, feared that the worship of his daughter by a Brahmana would spell ruin; so he dismissed Hriday immediately from his position as the priest of the Kali temple, with the warning that he should never again enter the precincts of the Temple.
2 The ceremonial awakening of Goddess Durga on the sixth lunar day on the eve of Her autumnal worship. The actual worship takes place on the three succeeding days, and the image is immersed on the tenth lunar day.