GOLAP MA
It was 28 July 1885. In a dilapidated house in North Calcutta a poor brahmin widow was making earnest preparations to receive Sri Ramakrishna in her home. She was poor but belonged to a very high class brahmin family. Her only daughter had died some time back, and consequently she lived a very sad life. She was glad beyond measure at the very idea that Sri Ramakrishna had agreed to grace her poor house with his presence. Sri Ramakrishna had already arrived at the house of neighboring devotee, so she was expecting him any moment. In her great eagerness she was going out many times just to see whether the Master was yet in sight on his way to her house, and then going in to give a finishing touch to the arrangements of welcome. Her sister was assisting her in the preparations to receive the august visitor. When the Master came the ‘grief-stricken brahmin woman’, as she was then called, was beside herself with joy. She did not know how to control her great emotion, and burst out: ‘Well, I cannot contain myself with joy. When my daughter Chandi came from her father-inlaw’s house and many guards and people accompanied her as a mark of honor to her, and my poor house was a stir with new life, even then I
