 Except this everything else is beyond our ken".The king reiterated his conviction of the omniscience of his Guru Paramananda and the consequent propriety on the part of the Mahantas to become the Sannyasi's disciples.The Thakuria Mahantas now stood as one man determined to oppose the king's design to convert them to the discipleship of the Paramananda.In this they received the tacit support of the three Gohains who thought that the time for their intervention had arrived.