THE LAST DAY OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
4 July 1902. Belur Math.
Swami Vivekananda was only 39.
This is how his final day unfolded.
Early Morning
Swamiji woke early and went to the shrine.
He appeared unusually cheerful and well. He ate some fruit, drank milk and joked with his brother monks.
Around 8:30 am
He asked Swami Premananda to prepare his meditation seat.
He then asked to be left alone.
The doors and windows were closed. Swamiji meditated for nearly three hours.
11:00 am
He came out of meditation singing a song to Mother Kali.
As he walked in the courtyard, Premananda heard him say something extraordinary.
“If there were another Vivekananda, he would have understood what Vivekananda has done. And yet, how many Vivekanandas shall be born in time.”
Around Noon
Unlike many other days, Swamiji ate with the other monks.
He was hungry and ate heartily. After lunch he rested for barely fifteen minutes.
Then he got up.
“A monk should not sleep during the day. Come, let us study.”
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
For almost three hours, Swami Vivekananda taught Sanskrit grammar to the young Brahmacharins.
It was no solemn final class.
He joked, told stories and turned the lesson into an afternoon of laughter.
Nobody around him knew that their teacher had only a few hours left.
Late Afternoon
He drank warm milk and went for a long walk with Swami Premananda towards Belur market.
His health had been poor for months.
Yet that evening he walked without difficulty.
They discussed many things, including his dream of establishing a Vedic college.
Around 5:00 pm
He returned to the Math and sat beneath a mango tree near the Ganga.
He talked with the monks.
Later he asked for a cup of tea.
7:00 pm
The bell rang for evening worship.
Swamiji went upstairs to his room.
He asked for his rosary and told the attendant not to disturb him.
Then he began to meditate.
Around 7:45 pm
He called the attendant back.
He asked him to open the windows because he felt warm.
Swamiji lay down.
The rosary was still in his hand.
He asked the attendant to massage his feet.
And then came the final moments.
Around 9:10 pm
His breathing became deep.
His hand trembled.
He took another deep breath.
His head moved on the pillow.
And Swami Vivekananda was gone.
He had once said:
“I shall not live to be forty.”
He was 39 years, 5 months and 22 days old.
The next day his body was taken to the bank of the Ganga at Belur Math.
Sister Nivedita sat beside her Guru in grief.
His mother Bhuvaneswari Devi came to see her Naren for the last time.
Swami Vivekananda was cremated at the spot beside the Ganga that he himself had reportedly pointed out only days earlier.
[Just three days earlier, while walking with Swami Premananda on the grounds of Belur Math, Swamiji had pointed towards a particular spot beside the Ganga and said:
“When I give up the body, cremate it there.”]
Today the Swami Vivekananda Temple at Belur Math stands there.
He had also once said that leaving the body would not end his work.
He lived for only 39 years. But those 39 years were enough to awaken a civilisation.
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You won't say why your favourite silver spoon shehzada lost from Amethi to Smirit Irani by 55,120 votes.
Imagine being a silver spoon yuva neta and fighting from your dynastic family seat and still loosing to someone who wasn't even fighting for PM post.
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Why did NaMo not have the guts to fight against RG?
Why did NaMo not accept a one-one debate at a neutral venue with RG?
Why has NaMo not gathered enough courage to do even one unscripted PCs?
There are too many uncomfortable questions that are tough to hide now.