Hazra even dared to slander Sri Ramakrishna to his face. He told the Master, “You love a boy if he comes from a wealthy family or if he is handsome.” Sri Ramakrishna answered: “If that is so, then why do I love Harish, Latu, and Narendra? Narendra hasn’t a penny to buy salt to season his rice.” However, Hazra’s comment disturbed the Master very much. On another occasion he said to the devotees: “Now and then Hazra comes forward to teach me. He says to me, ‘Why do you think so much about the youngsters?’ One day, as I was going to Balaram’s house in a carriage, I felt greatly troubled about it. I said to the Divine Mother: ‘Mother, Hazra admonishes me for worrying about Narendra and the other young boys. He asks me why I forget God and think about these youngsters.’ No sooner did this thought arise in my mind than the Divine Mother revealed to me in a flash that it is She Herself who has become man. But She manifests Herself most clearly through a pure soul. At this vision I went into samadhi. Afterwards I felt angry with Hazra. I said to myself, ‘That rascal made me miserable.’ Then I thought: ‘But why should I blame the poor man? How is he to know?’ I know these youngsters to be Narayana Himself.” (Source: They Lived with God)