Although the Ramakrishna Order has never involved itself in politics, the presence of the former revolutionaries brought police surveillance upon the Order in its earlier days. When Atmaprakashananda joined the Udbodhan centre in 1912, the police learned about it and summoned Saradananda, the then General Secretary of the Order, and Atmaprakashananda for questioning.

The police official did not offer a chair to Saradananda nor speak courteously to him. But Saradananda gently assured the police official that the young men who joined the Order has given up all political activities.

While returning to the monastery, Atmaprakashananda said in an aggrieved tone: "Swami, I am extremely sorry. It is for my sake that you have had to put up with an insult unworthy of your position." "Who can insult me?" Saradananda replied. "If my mind does not accept the rudeness, how can I be insulted? Have I kept anything for myself? I have already offered body, mind, and soul at the blessed feet of God, where there cannot be any room for good and bad, honour and dishonour. Be at ease. You need not worry on my behalf."

The inspiring life of Swami Saradananda, a monastic disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, is available in God Lived with them.