may come out of this ordeal is my constant prayer. For this reason I gave you all this advice. Can you understand everything I say? If you could do so, that would lighten my worries to a great extent. ... I cannot simply set aside those whom I have accepted as my own."
TN367
13. "To a mother a son is always a son."
C264
14. A devotee who had come seeking initiation was prevented from seeing the Mother according to Swami Saradananda's instructions, based on her continuous suffering from malaria. At this she said firmly, "What has Sarat to say? That's why we have come. I shall initiate him."
G402
15. "Whatever I have to give, I have given at the time of initiation. If you