On the evening of 6 May 1886, Narendra and Gopal were meditating in a room. Suddenly Narendra felt as if a lamp had begun to burn behind his head. The light grew more and more intense, until it seemed that the lamp itself burst. Narendra went into nirvikalpa samadhi. When after a while he became partly aware of his surroundings, he felt that he had somehow lost his body and was nothing but a head. “Where is my body?” he shouted. Surprised, Gopal came near him. “Where is my body?” Narendra repeated. Touching him, Gopal said: “It is here, Naren. Can’t you feel it?” But Narendra continued to cry out for his body until Gopal, alarmed, ran to tell the Master what had happened. Ramakrishna did not seem at all surprised. “Let him stay like that for a while,” he said calmly. “He’s been bothering me long enough to put him into that state.” (Source: God Lived with Them)