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SHRIMAD RAJCHANDRA At 7.45 next morning he drank a glass of milk. He was fully conscious.
Mansukh, please transfer me from this bed to that couch.
Mansukh, don't grieve for me. Take care of mother. I am
now going into Mahasamadhi.
Mansukh managed to do so in a way, convenient for him to lie comfortably.
During his Mahasamadhi which lasted five hours there was a divine lustre on his face. He was thirty three and a half years old. The mortal body was discarded by his immortal soul on 9th April 1901.
News of his Mahasamadhi shattered Shri Laghuraj Swami as well as Shri Ambalalbhai.
He wrote a heart-rending letter expressing He was in
his deep sorrow and sense of loss in a Kavitha about
poetic manner bemoaning the lack of mercy to break his
shown by the cruel hand of death. fast from the previous day. When he heard the sad news, he went back to the forest without touching any food or water and fasted for the next day as well.
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