Page 47 - Amrit Varta - Issue Feb. 2023 - English

Vol. 27, No.1, February 2023 MA ANANDAMAYEE AMRIT VARTA 37

I: PramilaDi, how much will you donate for this construction? Of course
you will donate ten thousand repuees.
PramilaDi: I cannot say anything without speaking with your Dada
(PramilaDi’s husband, an agent of Hindustan Life Insurance Co., Delhi). But
from my side I can donate one thousand rupees, this much I can say. How much
your Dada will agree to, I don’t know.
I: Ma! Within five minutes see how a collection of seven thousand has been
accumulated. With a tiny bit of Your kripa we will not have to worry for funds.
Money will surely get collected. The only requirement is Your kripa and
blessings.
This is the only discussion we had with Ma on that night. Shri Harshnath
Mukhopadhyay (husband of Smt Leela), another son of Mahamaya Devi, was a
patient of blood pressure and he could not sleep in the night. Hence till late in
the night he used to stroll near the mango tree in the courtyard in front of Ma’s
room. And by chance he had heard all the discussion we had with Ma regarding
Kashi Ashram. The next morning he said to me, “What were you all talking
yesterday in Ma’s room? Some words of collecting thousands of rupees came
to my ears too. Pleae tell me what is the matter? I narrated the complete
discussion to Harshnath babu, and also informed him that an assurance of seven
thousand rupees has already been obtained. Hearing this he too agreed to donate
one thousand rupees. Without pondering a second I rushed to Ma and said, “Ma!
See how eight thousand rupees have been collected within a few moments. With
a little bit of Your kheyal collection of funds will surely occur.”
The next day Didi wrote a letter regarding this matter to the Rani of Gondal.
Receiving Didi’s letter she immediately sent a cheque of three thousand rupees.
After obtaining eleven thousand rupees in her hand, GurupriyaDi departed for
Kolkata to collect more funds for Kashi Ashram. With Shree Shree Ma’s
blessings, receiving an equal amount of eleven thousand rupees from the
devotees of Kolkata, Didi departed happily for Kashi with the total donation.
Old devotees of Ma like Shri Chintaharan Samaddar, Dr. Girindra Krishna Mitra,
Shri Saroj Kumar Dutta etc., had each donated one thousand rupees. Didi had
gladly accepted whatever she received from the devotees. Several poor devotees
had even contributed one rupee. For this pious work Didi had accepted every
rupee with joy.
In 1947 after the Shree Shree Durga Puja, Shree Shree Ma secretly arrived
in Kashi with Her four children, Didi Gurupriya Devi, Swami Paramanandji,
Brahmachari Kamlakanth and Shri Abhay. I was instructed to hire a big Bajra