at Kamarpukur that had come down to her through him.
In spite of all this, Kamarpukur ceased to be her main rural home. Between April 1888, the date of her return to Calcutta at the invitation of devotees, and 1897, she is known to have visited Kamarpukur ten times,
1 and from this last date onwards she does not seem to have visited it at all. There were probably several reasons for her shifting from Kamarpukur. To some enquiries in later days, she said that Kamarpukur being too closely associated with the Master, it pained her to stay there in his absence. To a young devotee who attended on her, she said: 'After the Master's passing away I moved about here and there for some time. Then I went to live at Kamarpukur. But my relatives (meaning the nephew Ramlal and others) seemed to be indifferent towards me. The people of the village too were a high-handed lot. So my mother took me to Jayrambati and did not allow me to live at Kamarpukur any more.'
While loneliness and indifference of relatives formed the immediate cause of her gravitating towards Jayrambati, there was another reason for her permanent shift after 1897 till her demise in 1920. That was the domestic situation in her parental home and her intimate connection with the lives and fortunes of the members of that family. We have already seen that the Holy Mother's parental family consisted of her four younger brothers - Prasanna Kumar, Barada Prasad, Kali Kumar and Abhay Charan, who were all called 'uncles' by devotees in general. Being the eldest, the
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1 The Holy Mother visited Kamarpukur subsequently on the following occasions according to notes left by Master Mahashaya; end of October, 1890; in February and in July 1891; in July 1892; in January and in July, 1893; in May and in November 1895; in May and in September-October of 1897.