time, she got a rheumatic pain in the legs. To quote her own words about its origin: 'I used to stand behind the screen round the verandah of the Nahabat, and hear the Master sing and see him dance in ecstasy through the holes in the screen. It was standing there so long that brought on rheumatism in my legs.' As the Master knew all this, he took particular care to see that she did not injure her health. Of this the Holy Mother used to say: 'He would tell me, "A wild bird, if kept within a cage day and night, gets rheumatic. So you should have a walk at times in the neighbourhood." ' At noon when people generally retired after the midday meal, the Master would go to the Panchavati and see whether there was anybody in the neighbourhood. If there was none, he would tell me, "Just go out. There is no one." He would stand outside his room for a while, and I would go out of the place by the back gate and visit the ladies of the locality near Ramlal' s house. After spending the rest of the day in conversation with them, I would come back at dusk when all people generally went to the temple to attend the evening service.'
Realizing the Holy Mother's difficulties from insufficient accommodation, some of the devotees of the Master built a small cottage for her near the temple in 1874. Sambhu Mallick, acquired a plot of land on lease for Rs.250, and began constructing the cottage on it. Captain Visvanath Upadhyaya, the agent of the Nepal Government in Calcutta, was a great devotee of the Master. As he was in charge of the Nepal Government's timber yard in Calcutta, he offered to give all the timber necessary for the cottage. Accordingly, three logs of