It is extremely painful for a spiritual person who thinks constantly of God to talk or hear about mundane things. Once a novelist said to Sri Ramakrishna that the duties of a man were “eating, sleeping, and having sex.” Sri Ramakrishna scolded him, telling him that he was impudent: “What you do day and night comes out through your mouth. A man belches what he eats. If he eats radish, he belches radish.”1 Ramakrishna would feel a burning sensation on his lips whenever he had to talk with worldly people. He desperately searched for companions with whom he could talk about God.
One day Ramakrishna fervently prayed to the Divine Mother: “Mother,it is my desire that a boy with sincere love for God should always remain with me. Give me such a boy.” A few days later, sitting under the banyan tree at Dakshineswar, he had a vision of a boy. He told this to his nephew Hriday, who immediately explained its significance with joy: “Uncle, you will have a child.” “What do you mean?” said Ramakrishna with surprise. “I look upon all women as my mother. How can I have a son?”
Sri Ramakrishna had a second vision: “Just a few days before Rakhal’s coming I saw Mother putting a child into my lap and saying, ‘This is your son.’ I shuddered at the thought and asked her in surprise, ‘What do you mean? I too have a son?’ Then She explained with a smile that it would be a spiritual child, and I was comforted. Shortly after this vision Rakhal came, and I at once recognized him as the boy presented by the Divine Mother.”
Sometime in the middle of 1881, Sri Ramakrishna had another vision. He saw two boys dancing on a full-blown lotus floating on the Ganges. One of the boys was Krishna and the other was the same boy whom the Mother had previously placed on his lap. That very day Rakhal, crossing the Ganges, came to Dakshineswar from Konnagar; the Master immediately recognized him as his spiritual son. (Source: God Lived with Them)