During the rainy season Dakshineswar became very unhealthy, so at that time Sri Ramakrishna would generally visit Kamarpukur, Jayrambati, and Sihar and would take Hriday with him. On one occasion while he was there, the special rice that was used for the food offering to Raghuvir was all gone. Rameshwar’s wife asked her daughter, Lakshmi, to go to Mukundapur and buy some. Lakshmi was then ten years old, a thin girl wearing a short cloth. It was raining. Putting a bamboo basket on her head, she left through the back door with half a rupee. The Master was then talking with some villagers near the main gate. After some time Lakshmi returned without any rice and met the Master at the gate. He asked, “Lakshmi, where did you go?” The little girl burst into tears and said, “I went to Mukundapur to buy rice for the Lord, but I couldn’t get any.” The Master’s heart went out to her in her predicament and he said, “Oh, what suffering there is for the people of the world!” He then called for his sister-in-law, who explained that though they had rice for their meals they had no special rice for the offering.
Immediately the Master took decisive steps to end the family’s food problem. He called on his neighbour, Sri Ram Yogi, and his boyhood friend Gayavishnu, and asked them to buy some land. After a long search, six acres of land were found. In order to make the purchase official, the Master went to the court at Goghat by palanquin. As he described it: “Once I went to the Registry Office to register some land, the title of which was in the name of Raghuvir. The officer asked me to sign my name; but I didn’t do it, because I couldn’t feel that it was ‘my’ land.” After returning to Kamarpukur, the Master said to Lakshmi: “Henceforth you won’t suffer from lack of food. And you won’t have to run to Mukundapur for rice anymore either.” (Source: They Lived with God)