Ghosh once remarked that these brothers of Holy Mother must have performed tremendous austerities in their previous births to have merited so much attention from their divine sister.
After the death of Syamasundari Devi in 1906, the Holy Mother became practically the mistress of the family. But she found that, with the growth of their families, the 'uncles' were developing their own separate interests to the neglect of the common family, and that this was leading to endless bickering and quarrels among them. Finally, as the only way to restore peace, she asked Swami Saradananda to come over to her village and arrange for the partition of their ancestral properties. It was on 23rd March, 1909 that the Swami arrived at Jayrambati on this work. To arbitrate at a partition is never a pleasant duty for anyone, much less for a highly spiritual personage like the Swami. But he considered it both a privilege and a blessing to be of service to the Holy Mother and to carry out any of her commands. Possessed as he was of great powers of mental detachment, he spent much of his time in talking about the Master and in editing Swami Vivekananda's Jnana Yoga, while attending simultaneously to the demarcating of landed properties and mediating in the bitter quarrels that arose in the course of partition among the 'uncles.' For example, all the documents were in the custody of uncle Kali. Uncle Prasanna, however, thought that he had an equal right to be their custodian, and in the course of a sitting of the parties concerned in the partition, he tried to snatch them away from his brother's hands. This resulted in a scuffle