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Sri Sarada Devi, or the Holy Mother—as she is popularly
called, was the illustrous consort of Sri Ramakrishna. To her
came countless men and women seeking spiritual solace. By her
maternal solicitude, winsome simplicity, and purity of character,
she transformed the lives of many devotees. She nurtured the
Ramakrishna Movement in its initial stages. In and through her
Sri Ramakrishna sought to give India and the world a myriad-faceted
gem of the ideal of womanhood at its noblest and best. We find
in her life reincarnate all those ideals for which the greatest
of Indian women stood for in the ages past–Sita's unswerving
devotion and service to her lord through all the vicissitudes
of fortune, Savitri's chastity and dauntlessness, Gargi's grasp
of spiritual truths, and Maitreyi's scorn of wealth and yearning
for Immortality.
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