 The people of the locality gathered and concluded that Sivanath Sastri had forsaken his sacred thread on his advice, and, therefore, no Brahmo could continue to be a teacher in the school.They put up a petition to that effect to the secretary of the school Dwarakanath Vidyabhusan, maternal uncle of Sivanath Sastri.He was in many ways sympathetic to the Brahmo cause but had not joined the Brahmo Samaj.