Ruhani Satsang - His Last Year of Life

His Last Year of Life

In Delhi, in February 1974, he organized a great "World Conference on Unity of Man", with more than two thousand delegates, religious and political leaders from India and all over the world, with an attendance of one hundred thousand people. At the Kumba Mela (Festival of Religions) in Hardwar, on 2 April the same year, he gathered sadhus (itinerant monks) and "saintly men" in the "Conference of National Unity", with the aim of favoring cooperation, eliminating all religious barriers and bettering the economical asset of the poor people of India. On 1 August he was invited to speak to the Indian Parliament, the only Master of the spirit who was given this particular honor. In the same month, on the 21st, he left his mortal body after a brief illness.

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