 Soon after marriage, his brother-in-law, Manmohan Mitra, who was a close devotee of Sri Ramakrishna, took Rakhal to Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.Prior to that the Master had had a vision in which he saw the Divine Mother showing him a child who would be his son.As soon as Rakhal came to Dakshineswar, Sri Ramakrishna recognized him to be that child, and treated him like a son.