

He was on dialysis and used to be on and off ventilator for the last couple of months.

He breathed his last at his Ashram in the Narsinghpur district around 3:30 PM, Swami Sadanand Maharaj, second-in-command (known as Dandi Swami) of the Dwarka Peeth, told PTI.Īn Ashram release said the Shankaracharya died of cardiac arrest. Swami Swaroopanand, who was the Shankracharya of Dwarka-Sharda Peeth (in Gujarat), and Jyotish Peeth (in Uttrakhand), was not keeping well for over a year, his aide said. (Eds: Updating and clubbing related copies, adding pics)īhopal, Sep 11 (PTI) Dwarka peeth Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati, once known as a "revolutionary sadhu" for participating in freedom struggle, who spoke his mind on religious and political issues and questioned the "deification" of Saibaba of Shirdi, died of cardiac arrest in his ashram in Madhya Pradesh on Sunday.
