Narendranath and Ramakrishna (contd-1)

Group Photo taken on 30 January 1887 in Baranagar Math;
Standing; (l-r) Swami sivananda, Swami Ramakrishnananda, Swami Vivekananda, Randhuni,Debendranath majumdar, Mahendranath Gupta (Shri M), Swami Trigunatitananda, H.Mustafi
Sitting; (l-R) Swami niranjananda, Swami Saradananda, Hutko Gopal (Gopal Ghosh), Swami Abhedananda.
By the end of the year A.D.1884, the presence of Ramakrishna at Dakshineswar came to be widely known all over Calcutta. His unique personality, his frequent experience of ecstasy, his ambrosial words conveying the highest teachings of religion in very simple form, his unique power of rousing the spiritual potentialities of aspirants, his unselfish love for every one without distinction of caste or creed - all these were the general talk among the people of Calcutta, and large numbers of them began to pour into Dakshineswar to see him, and many of them, having seen him once , to repeat there visits. Although his body became exhausted on account of excessive strain in teaching people, the zeal of his mind in this respect was never seen to wane. Hearing that the pain in Ramakrishna's throat had increased, one of our acquaintances, a lady, was about to go to see him in the month of August in 1885. Another lady of the locality came to know of it and said to her, "There is nothing else in the house today to send to Ramakrishna through you. Will you please take with you a potful of milk?"The former refused and said, " it is inconvenient to carry milk, and if there is no milk in Dakshineswar , milk need not be taken."
But Ramakrishna was not in a position to take any other diet except milk mixed with rice. After many inquiry she was able to collect some milk for Ramakrishna. Ramakrishna said to her in affection, " I feel much pain in my throat, will you please utter the mantra you know to cure my pain and pass your hand over the throat.
Some time passed, but the pain in Ramakrishna's throat was only on the increase inspite of all treatment. He was  examined and found to be contracted the incurable disease Rohini which in the opinion of the Western Doctors call cancer."
In about a week the house of Gokulchandra Bhattacharya, situated on the Shyampukur street was hierd and Dr. Mahendranath Sarkar was called for his treatment.