One night in Dakshineswar Sri Ramakrishna got up at mid night and said to his nephew Ramlal, “I am very hungry.” Ramlal searched the room but could not find any sweets or fruits, so he went to the nahabat and informed the Holy Mother. She immediately made a fire with some hay and wood and began to cook farina pudding. Golap-ma carried the bowl, containing two pounds of pudding, to the Master. Swami Saradananda wrote: “She just stepped into the room, dimly lighted by a lamp in a corner, where Ramlal was sitting quietly nearby. She was startled to notice the Master pacing back and forth at that dead of night, calm and silent, with an extraordinary spiritual mood overwhelming him. It seemed to her that the Master’s body had become much bigger in both height and bulk, as if he were not a mortal of this earth, but some god from heaven come in the guise of a human being to this earthly sphere so full of misery, wailing, and death. Ramlal had already placed a seat for the Master to sit on. Awe-struck and hesitating, the woman devotee [Golap-ma] went near and placed the bowl of farina pudding in front of the seat. The Master sat down to eat and gradually ate all of it under the influence of that spiritual intoxication.”
Golap-ma later described her vision of the kundalini power accepting oblations in the Master’s body: “It seemed to me that as soon as the Master put food in his mouth the snake-shaped Kundalini Shakti within him was aroused and snatched at the food and devoured it. The Master asked me, ‘Well, can you tell me who is eating—myself—or someone else?’ I told the Master what I had seen. He was pleased to hear it and said: ‘You are right! You are right! You are fortunate that you have seen it and understood it.’ Then he smiled.” (Source: They Lived with God)
The Master sat on a seat on the floor, and Nistarini served one dish after another. Then she brought the Master’s favourite sandesh (sweet), and a desire came to her mind to feed the Master sweets with her own hand. Sri Ramakrishna read her thought and said: “What? You want to feed me with your own hand?” After a pause he smiled and told her: “All right. Feed me.” Saying so, he opened his mouth. As Nistarini put a sandesh into the Master’s mouth, she saw that a mysterious being [the Kundalini, or Serpent Power] gulped it down. Frightened, she stopped feeding the Master. He then slowly ate by himself and gave the prasad to Nistarini. (Source: They Lived with God)