Many times the Master told us, “I am Lord Jagannath of Puri.” He sent me to Puri a few times and advised me about what to do in a holy place. Once he said, “Embrace Lord Jagannath.” I (Mahendra Nath Gupta) was in a dilemma, because pilgrims are not supposed to embrace the Lord on the altar. But when I was inside the temple, the Master inspired me with an idea. I had some coins and other money in my pocket, which I intentionally dropped on the floor of the dark inner sanctuary of the temple. The priests rushed to pick up that money, and in the meantime I jumped onto the altar and embraced Lord Jagannath. Someone saw me and shouted, but I immediately got down and began to circumambulate the Lord. In the darkness nobody could recognize me.
It was the Master who asked me to embrace Lord Jagannath and gave me the idea of how to do it, and then he made it easy for me by arousing greed in the priests. Now I wonder how I did that heroic deed! The Master never went to Puri. He said, “My body will not last if I visit Puri.” When I returned from Puri the Master embraced me and said, “Now I have satisfied my desire to embrace Jagannath.” (Source: Ramakrishna as We Saw Him)
(The idea is this: According to the rules of the temple, the worshippers could touch the image only in certain months of the year. M., overpowered by devotion, broke these rules in the complete forgetfulness of spiritual absorption and touched the Deity during the forbidden time.)