I shall do my best!!

Once when the Master was ill, an ayurvedic doctor from Calcutta named Gangaprasad Sen treated him. The doctor prescribed some medicines that would become ineffective if the patient drank water, so he forbade the Master to drink even a drop. The childlike Master began to ask everyone, "Well, shall I be able to live without water?"

Holy Mother assured him, "Of course, you will be all right without drinking any water."

The Master replied: "Look, you will have to remove water even from the washed pomegranate seeds."

Holy Mother said: "Everything will happen by the grace of Mother Kali. I shall do my best."

He took the medicine and resolved not to drink any water.

Holy Mother recalled:

Every day I gave him three to four seers [1 seer = four cups] of milk to drink - later on even five to six seers. The man who milked the temple cows used to give me milk in large quantities. He would say to me: "If I give all this milk to the temple, the priests will take it home after worship and give it away to anyone and everyone. But if I leave the milk here, the Master will have it." He used to give me up to five or six seers of milk a day. He was a good man, full of devotion. I used to give him sweets. I would boil the milk down to a seer and a half.

The Master would ask me, "How much milk is there?" I would say, "A seer or a seer and a quarter."

He would remark: "Perhaps more. I see such a thick scum."

One day Golap was there. He asked her, "How much milk is there?" And she told the truth. "Ah! so much milk," he exclaimed, "that is why I get indigestion. Call her, call her." I came in, and he told me what Golap had said about the milk. I pacified him, saying: "Oh! Golap does not know the measurement. How can she know how much the pot contains?" Another day he asked Golap about the milk and she said in reply, "One full bowl from here and another from the Kali temple." At this the Master got nervous again. He sent for me, and began to ask about the exact measurement of the bowl as to how many Poas and Chataks it contained. I replied: "I do not know about Poas and Chataks. You will drink milk. Why all these enquiries about measurements? Who knows about all these calculations?"

He was not satisfied. He said: "Can I digest all this milk? I shåll get indigestion." Really, that day he did get indigestion. He did not take anything that night, except a little sago water.

Golap said to me afterwards, "Well, Mother, you should have told me about it before. How could I know? His whole evening meal is spoiled." In reply I said to her: "There is no harm in telling a lie about food. Thus I coax him to eat." In this way his health got better and he was almost cured of his illness.

Many years later when Mrs. Sara Bull, an American devotee, asked Holy Mother about her attitude towards Ramakrishna, she replied: "In spiritual matters, absolute obedience, in other things I used my own common sense."

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