“The 23rd of May, 1909, is a red letter day in the annals of the premises No.1, Udbodhan Lane, Baghbazar, Calcutta; for on that day the Holy Mother set her sacred foot there….The Mother was overjoyed to see the house and blessed Swami Saradananda heartily.”
(p.230, Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi)
“…Because it is during these moments of visitations when the heart is wrung by hands which never stop for the father’s cries or the mother’s wail, when under the load of sorrow, dejection, and despair the world seems to be cut off from under our feet, and when the whole horizon seems to be nothing but an impenetrable sheet of misery and utter despair – that the internal eyes open, light flashes all of a sudden, the dream vanishes, and intuitively we come face to face with the grandest mystery in nature – Existence.”
(p.344, V-354, Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Swamiji wrote this to D R Balaji Rao on 23rd May 1893)