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.”
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