Death of Swami Vivekananda-
Around 1884, when he was forty-eight, his throat began to bleed. At first it was diagnosed as 'clergyman's sore throat' and treated as such. But as the bleeding continued, the malady was recognized for what it was: cancer. Swami Vivekananda had once prophesied that he would not live to be fifty. He died on July 4, 1902, six months before the target he had set for himself.
Soon the chapel bell rang the seven o'clock call for evening worship. Quietly, with a word that none should disturb him, he went to his own room for an hour's meditation. Then he called one of his disciples in and asked him to open all the windows and fan his head. Without a word, he lay down and a silence enveloped the room. The disciple continued to fan the Swami. Minutes passed and not a word was uttered. It was presumed that Vivekananda was either sleeping or gone into deep meditation and in any event it was not for the disciple to disturb him either by word or deed.
At the end of an hour, says Swami Nikhilananda in the Swami's official biography, Vivekananda's hands trembled a little and he seemed to take a deep breath. There followed a shattering silence. The Swami again took a similar deep breath. 'His eyes became fixed in the center of his eyebrows, his face assumed a divine expression and eternal silence fell.'
From 'Philosophy of Death and Dying' by M.V. Kamath.
Swami Vivekananda did not die, but gave up his body voluntarily in an act of yoga called mahasamadhi, as did his master, Sri Ramakrishna, writes Charles Franc, July 1998. It was the latter, not Vivekananda - he suffered from dropsy and other nagging ailments - who had throat cancer. 'Swami Vivekananda passed away at the age of thirty-nine years, five months, and twenty-four days, thus fulfilling his own prophecy: "I shall not live to be forty years old"' (Nikhilananda, p. 178)-
2006-11-18 23:03:01
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answered by Anonymous
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"On July 4, 1902 at Belur Math near Kolkata, he taught Vedanta philosophy to some pupils in the morning. He had a walk with Swami Premananda, a brother-disciple and gave him instructions concerning the future of the Ramakrishna Math.Vivekananda died of heart failure at the young age of 40."
2006-11-18 19:03:38
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answered by Brad 4
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he die with bleeding mouth ' and he died by a kind of dieseses in the age of 33
2017-03-27 00:51:42
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answered by Shaji katayaprath 1
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died of continued illness , died young, but died after seeing what he lived to die for. a hindu monk could not have accomplished so much in so short time. none of the western ecclesiasticals at world religious meet in Chicago (1893)would think fit to challenge the treatises in Vedanta when he thundered that the vedic Hindu creed teaches no hatred jealousy meant no exvlusive identity for Indian but called upon world citizen to respond to "Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam". the recognition he recieved from the west left Indian nationalists' rising spirits with mounting moral to charge head on upon the raj's tottering existence.
2006-11-18 19:49:20
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answered by akshay s 3
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