During festivals, Tejchandra Mitra would go to the Ramakrishna monastery at Belur to offer his services. Once he and some other devotees took a steamer from the Ahiritola ghat of Calcutta to Belur Math. The boat was overcrowded, and a boy of five or six years old accidentally fell into the Ganges. Everyone was concerned, but no one dared attempt a rescue. Seeing the boy’s hand in the river, Tejchandra could not stop himself. Shouting “Victory to Ramakrishna,” he jumped into the water with his shoes and clothes on. People thought that Tejchandra must be a close relative of the boy. He rescued the boy without losing anything from his pocket, and then returned home to change his clothes before going to Belur Math. He later told his friends: “It was the Master who inspired me, so it was possible for me to save that boy.”
One morning in Calcutta, Gauri-ma went with some of her students to bathe in the Ganges. After arriving there she noticed that a girl was being carried away by the current of the river. Some people were watching the girl and lamenting, but they did nothing to rescue her. Gauri-ma scolded them, and then quickly tied her cloth around her waist and jumped into the water, saying, “Victory to the Divine Mother.” Her students screamed because they knew that Gauri-ma could not swim. In the meantime two men also jumped into the water, and they rescued the girl. Fortunately Gauri-ma had not gone into deep water. (Source: They Lived with God)
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