Lavanya Chakrabarty recorded in his reminiscences: In 1912 at Lakshmi Nivas in Varanasi I met a woman with a veil near the main door. Looking at her face, I asked: “Are you the Mother?”
“Yes, my son, I am your mother.”
“My mother!”
“Yes, I am the Mother of you all.”
“Our Mother!”
“Yes, my son, I am the Mother of the Universe.”
A devotee asked, “Mother, people call you Bhagavati.”
Holy Mother replied, “It does not matter what others say. I tell you myself that I am Bhagavati.”
One day Holy Mother referred to Ramakrishna as Bhagavan, God Himself.
A disciple asked her, “If the Master is Bhagavan [God], then what are you?”
“Who else am I?” the Mother replied without any hesitation. “I am Bhagavati, the Divine Mother of the Universe.”
On 4 September 1918, the Mother told Sarajubala Sen: “People call me Bhagavati, the goddess. I think that it must be so. So many incredible things have happened in my life! Golap and Yogin are witnesses of those events. If I think: ‘Let this happen, or I shall eat this,’ immediately God makes those things possible.”