Death
Revered as an activist philosopher, Dadaji died on 25 October 2003, in at Khetwadi in south Mumbai, India. He was 83 years old at the time of his demise. He died of a heart attack. He was cremated on the evening of 26 October at Tatvagnyaan Vidyapeeth, Ghodbunder in Thane district, where around 10,000 people were present. Subsequently his ashes were immersed at Ujjain, Pushkar, Haridwar, Kurukshetra, Gaya, Jagannath Puri, and lastly at Rameswaram.
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