Strangers would be scared away or frightened by his very grave appearance, but those who were bold enough to approach and mix with him, would know that here was a man who had a mother’s heart. Yes 1 Swami Saradananda took a pride in considering himself a “gate-keeper” of the house where the Holy Mother, the divine consort of Sri Ramakrishna lived, and every evening whoever visited the house was sure to see the Swami sitting there. The visitor felt so embarrassed at his foolishness in believing that the Swami could be a gate-keeper, that he at once left the place. ![]() There in the course of conversation when he asked some one who the man was whom he had first met, he learnt that the grave-looking person was no other than Swami Saradananda, the Secretary of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission. The innocent man believed this, and went to the next room-which was the office room. ” I am here the gate-keeper,” came the grave reply. The visitor, quite a stranger to the place, inquired of him who he was. As he entered the building, in a small room on the left-hand side of the entrance he saw a burly-looking person sitting cross-legged-wrapped in his own thought. ![]() To a Ramakrishna Math, in North Calcutta, known as “ Udbodhan House” to the public or as the ” Holy Mother’s Abode ” to the devotees, there came a visitor some years back.
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