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Today is Swami Vivekananda’s Punya Tithi. in 1902 he obtained Mahasamadhi at 9:10pm at the age of 39 years and 5 months. he fulfilled his own prophecy “I shall not live to be 40 years old” +

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just 3 days before his Mahasamadhi Swami pointed out to Swami Premananda a particular spot on Belur Math grounds where he wished his body to be cremated. he said "A great tapasya and meditation has come upon me, and I am making ready for death."

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on Wednesday, he observed Ekadashi, after fasting he poured water over hands & dried them with a towel. when his disciples protested he said ‘Jesus washed the feet of his disciples’, someone checked the answer & muttered ‘But that was the last time’

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on the supreme day, Friday He spent 3 hrs in formal meditation. later he whispered ‘If there were another Vivekananda, then he would have understood what this Vivekananda has done! And yet how many Vivekanandas shall be born in time!'

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he asked the disciple Suddhananda to read a passage from the Yajurveda with the commentary of a well-known expositor. The Swami said that he did not agree with the commentator & exhorted the disciple to give a new interpretation of the Vedic texts.

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He had his lunch with members of Math though he usually ate alone. then he taught Sanskrit grammer to the bramhacharis for 3 hrs. Later he walked for 2 miles with Swami Premamnanda dicussing about a Vedic College in the Math to “kill superstition’.

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On his return he enquired about each member of d Math, discussed with his companions on the Rise & Fall of Nations. ‘India is immortal, if she persists in her search for God, but if she goes in for politics & social conflict, she will die’, he said.

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at 7 pm he went to his room & asked not to be disturbed. after an hour of dhyan & Jap, he called his disciples to open all windows & fan his head. He laid down quietly. an hour later his hands trembled a little, breathed heavily twice.

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His eyes became fixed in the centre of his eyebrows, with a divine expression the eternal silence fell. 'There was,' said a brother disciple of the Swami, 'a little blood in his nostrils, about his mouth, and in his eyes.’

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According to the Yoga scriptures, the life-breath of an illumined yogi passes out through the opening on the top of the head, causing the blood to flow in the nostrils and the mouth.

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The brother disciples thought that he might have fallen into samadhi, and chanted the Master's name to bring back his consciousness. But he remained on his back motionless.

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doctors were sent for & after a thorough examination the doctor opined ‘life was only suspended’, artificial respiration was tried. at midnight he was pronounced dead by apoplexy or sudden failure of the heart.

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The moment was there that had been foretold by his Master from the beginning. at 9:10pm on the wings of that meditation, his spirit soared whence there could be no return, and the body was left, like a folded vesture, on the earth.

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This is the Nirvikalpa Samadhi that Pramahansa told him about… "This is your mango, Look! I lock it in my box. You shall taste it once more, when your work in finished." and he waited for he knew that his time was near for he said this…

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For centuries to come people everywhere will be inspired by Swami Vivekananda's message,'O man! first realize that you are one with Brahman- aham Brahmasmi & then realize that the whole universe is verily the same Brahman — Sarvam Khalvidam Brahma.'