Cause of Vivekananda death.

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The cause of Swami Vivekananda’s death on July 4, 1902 has been long debated as to whether it was a deliberate act of will—through the Swami’s powers of yoga---or took place because of illness, aggravated by over-exertion.

When Vivekananda breathed his last on July 4, 1902, at the age of 39, doctors averred that he had died of apoplexy; however, many of his devotees believed that he had taken "mahasamadhi" (i.e., the Hindu belief in a god-illumined master's conscious exit from the body at the time of physical death). They point to his 1898 poem "To the Fourth of July" and to his predictions that he would never live to see forty.

They suggest that while it may have been a coincidence and possibly not unique that he wrote a poem in praise of the day/holiday on which he happened later to die, they speculate that it may be singular that it was written by someone whose cause of death has been much debated as to its cause. [Please see: ] Moreover, they suggest, the Swami’s meaning in the poem, while referencing the ideal of Amercan freedom celebrated on this holiday, possibly alluded to a greater more eternal freedom.


The debate continues to this day.   Kanhaiya sharma     

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