Swami Nirvanananda related a touching incident that took place in 1918 at Balaram’s house. One day after lunch, when Brahmananda was about to rest, a teenage girl came with her brother to see him. When Nirvanananda told this to Maharaj, he said that he could see her at 4:00 p.m. But when the girl insisted, Maharaj allowed her to see him in his room. As soon as she saw him, she began to weep. Then pointing to a picture of Sri Ramakrishna, she said, “He has asked me to come to you.” Maharaj said to her affectionately, “Tell me what has happened, my child.”
Then she told her story. She had been married at the age of fourteen, and her husband died only two weeks after their marriage. (In India at that time this was a disastrous situation. A Hindu widow could not remarry and had to depend on her husband’s family for the rest of her life.) Faced with this gloomy future, she wholeheartedly prayed: “O Lord, what will become of me? I am so lonely and helpless. What shall I do? Please show me the way.” After a year or so, one night Sri Ramakrishna appeared to her in a dream and said: “Don’t weep. My son Rakhal is living in Baghbazar. Go to him. He will help you.” She had never heard of Ramakrishna or Rakhal.
Without telling her in-laws about the dream, she came to visit her mother in Tollygunj, South Calcutta. Her mother knew about Sri Ramakrishna. Directed by her mother, she went to Saradananda at Udbodhan, and he sent her to Maharaj. The girl was with Maharaj for two hours and during that time he initiated her. He then asked Nirvanananda to feed the girl and her brother. The girl later became a nun and established a convent. (Source: God Lived with Them)