'How can I, who am his mother, forbid him to come? Such words will never come out of my lips.' The young man continued his visit. He also brought the girl one day. Though she reprimanded her for enticing the young man, her behaviour towards her was as affectionate as to any of her daughters. To mention another similar incident, while she was at Koalpara, a sweeper woman came to her in a completely distracted mood because her paramour had suddenly deserted her, leaving her completely stranded. No moral prudishness stood in the way of the Mother giving a helping hand to the woman. She sent for the man and, by her very gentle and motherly persuasion, reconciled the couple.
A unique feature of her maternal love was its constitutional disinclination to notice the faults of others. In this respect she combined in herself the nature of a loving mother and that of an innocent child - the mother in her making her too big-hearted to count the error of her children as of any significance, and the child in her, insulating her vision from the perception of evil by her utter innocence. We have already referred to her prayer at Brindavan to have the fault-finding tendency blotted out from her. Her prayer was literally answered. For, it is said that even if any action proceeding from the smallness of men happened to meet her eyes as she passed by, her gaze, with its characterisitic innocence, as of a little girl, would take no notice of it. Golap-Ma was once scolding a maid-servant. When the Holy Mother asked her the reason for it, she said in a pique, 'Mother, what is the good of telling you? You cannot see the defects of others.' To this the Mother replied in a mild