WOMEN – God Wants Us To Treat Them This Way!

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa was formally married to Sri Sarada Devi, who in her later life was acclaimed as the Holy Mother by her devotees.  But, he had a unique relationship with her.  He looked upon her as the veritable manifestation of the Divine Mother and any thought of physical relationship never ever crossed his mind.  Of course, other people were baffled by this attitude and someone even went to the extent of asking him as to why he did not lead the life of a normal householder with his wife.  Sri Ramakrishna explained his attitude through a beautiful story from our Puranas.

One day Ganesha was playing with a cat and he deliberately scratched it with his nails.  On returning home he was shocked to see a mark of scratch on the cheek of his mother Parvati.  He was very much disturbed and asked her as to who did this to her.  Parvati, who was none other than the Mother of Universe, replied, “This is the work of your own hands with a scratch of nails”.  Ganesha was wonderstruck and he said, “How can that be a mother?  Can I do this to you?.. click more