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Her husband seated her where the image goes, performed the full ritual of the goddess to her, and laid a lifetime of practice at her feet. She was eighteen.
Sarada Devi's husband worshipped her.
Not metaphorically, and not as a figure of speech about a good marriage. On a night in 1872, at Dakshineswar, Ramakrishna seated his wife in the place where the image goes.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.