washed her feet, and made offering of water, betel and sweets as to a deity before the two palanquins moved away on the shoulders of the fleet-footed bearers. Late in the night they reached Koalpara where they rested for the night. While starting from there in the morning, the Mother gave Brahmachari Yogen a walking stick, a property of uncle Prasanna, to be returned to him along with a mosquito curtain, adding significantly, 'My son, there is Sarat (Swami Saradananda) to look after you all.' Travelling from Koalpara via Kotulpur they reached Vishnupur only at 2 p.m., rather late, because of a halt on the way for refreshments and some purchases from wayside shops. At Vishnupur the party rested for that night and the next day at the house of the devotee Sureshwar Sen, and then proceeded to Calcutta by train, reaching there at 9 p.m. on 27th of February. When she got down from the train, Yogin-Ma and Golap-Ma, who were waiting on the railway platform to receive her, were shocked to see her emaciated body, and exclaimed in consternation to the disciple accompanying, 'Oh, in what a pitiable condition you have brought the Mother to us! Why, she is black as soot! You have brought here a skeleton covered with skin.'
She arrived in Calcutta on 27 February 1920, and for the next five months she suffered from this malignant fever. Immediately after her arrival, she was placed under the treatment of the reputed Ayurvedic physician, Kaviraj Shyamadas Vachaspati. The treatment at first gave her some relief. But the medicine given was so bitter that the unpleasant taste persisted even at mealtime, so much so that she could not take