BALARAM BASU PASSED AWAY ON 13 APRIL, 1890
Balaram Babu would save money from his household budget and use it to serve the monks. His relatives thought he was a miser. I never knew how rich he was! One day, seeing him lying on a narrow bed, I said: “Why don’t you find yourself a larger bed? This one is too narrow for you.” Do you know what he said? “This earthly body will one day return to the earth. Why should money be spent for my bed when it can be much better spent in service to holy people?”
(p.149, God Lived with Them, Swami Adbhutananda’s reminiscences of Balaram Babu)