Mysterious Deaths

Sometime back I published a blog about wondrous births, today I am writing about mysterious deaths. It includes the deaths of those people also whose even body was not found, or they died in mysterious conditions, or people still are not sure how they died.

Shankaraachaarya
He was born in Kerala during 8th and 9th century AD. He is honored as Jagad Guru. He established 4 Math in all the four directions - (1) Jyotir Math in North in Jyotirmath, (2) Govardhan Math in East at Puree, (3) Shringeree Shaaradaa Peeth  in South in Shringeree, and (4) Dwaarakaa Peeth in West at Dwaarakaa. His death is also a mystery. It is said that he entered a cave in Kedaar Naath and then never came out.

Meeraa Baaee
Meeraa Baaee lived from 1498 to 1557 in Raajpootaanaa state of India. She died or say disappeared in Dwaarakaa in 1557. She was a great devotee of Krishn. She was Queen of Chittaud. She had connections with Taansen, Tulasee Daas, Kabeer Daas and Roop Goswaamee and it is believed that she was the disciple of Sant Raaya Daas. Her husband was very angry at this and he tried to kill her by several means - by mixing poison in the Prasaad of Charanaamrit, by sending box of snake to bite her, by making a bed of thorns etc but her devotion to Krishn saved her all the time. Later, one day after a great unbearable torture, she left the palace and went first to Vrindaa Van, and then to Dwaarakaa.

Last she was seen entering Dwaarakaadheesh Temple. Nobody saw her coming out of the temple. Only her wrapping cloth (her Saaree) was found around the statue of Krishn there. It is a mystery, where did she go? It seems that she disappeared in the Moorti of Dwaarakaadheesh. Some say that she got absorbed in the Moorti in front of all the audience.

Adolf Hitler
He was the Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 (April 30) - the Dictator of Nazi Germany. He was an Austrian born German - 1889-1945.  he was the center of World War II in Europe and the Holocaust. His aggressive foreign policy gave rise to the WWII situation. His policies were the cause of at least 5.5 million Jews and millions of other people. By late 1944, Hitler realized the he was going to lose the war, so he decided to make peace with USA and Britain, but the US President Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945. Hitler ordered to demolish all industrial structures before Germany fell in the hands of others, but the Arms Minister did not obey this order. On April, 22, when he found that his orders were not followed and heard the Russians had broken into Berlin, he declared that he would stay in Berlin till the end and shoot himself. By April 23, the Red Army had broken into Berlin. After midnight, on April 29, 1945, Hitler married Eva Braun in a bunker. He took breakfast with his new wife, he took his secretary, dictated his last will and testament witnessed by a few people. Later that afternoon Italian leader Benito Mussolini was assassinated. Next day, on April 30, Hitler and Eva committed suicide. Eva bit into a cyanide capsule, and Hitler shot himself. Both bodies were carried upstairs and burnt with petrol. Berlin surrendered on May 2.

Records in the Soviet archives - obtained after the fall of the Soviet Union - showed that the remains of Hitler, Braun, Hitler's dogs and others, were repeatedly buried and exhumed. The remains from the boxes were burned, crushed, and scattered into the Biederitz river, a tributary of the nearby Elbe.

His death is still a mystery - his body was not found. Nobody knows exactly how he died. Some say he died by poison, some guess by a snake bite, some argue by a gun shot.

Subhash Chandra Bose
Subhash Chandra Bose, or Netaa Jee, was a freedom fighter for India. He lived from 1897 to 1945? He was born in Cuttack, then in Bangaal. He was ousted from Indian National Congress on the basis of differences in 1939 and was kept captive, under house arrest, by British. He escaped from India to Germany  by assuming the form of a Pathaan on January 19, 1941 from his house. he lived there from 1941 to 1943. Then he left Germany for Japan in a submarine which went to Japan through the Cape of Good Hope. By 1945, he organized Indian National Army composed mostly by Indians working in British Army, but he failed to carry out his plan.

It is said that he died of third degree burns when he was trying to escape in an overloaded Japanese plane which crashed in Taiwan, on August 18, 1945. His body was cremated. His ashes were taken to Japan. The absence of his body led to the possibility of his survival. One claim is that he later died in Siberia while in Soviet captivity. Several committees were set up to find out about his death and they all gave different reports - there was no plane crash in Taiwan on August 18, 1945 in Taiwan. A newspaper of 1960s reported that Netaa Jee was in Russia and Khrushchev was ready to give him to India within 45 days if Nehru wished, but it never happened. In 1992, Netaa Jee was awarded the highest civilian award "Bharat Ratn", but it was not given as his death was not known.

Haile Selassie
Haile Selassie was the king of Ethiopia form  1930-1974. When he died or was killed, he was 83 years old - 1892-1975. He became Emperor of Ethiopia in 1930. He had several titles, "His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I" in his office, conquering "Lion of the Tribe of the Judah", "King of Kings" of Ethiopia, "Elect of God". He even enjoyed enormous prestige and respect outside Ethiopia. There happened a riot in February 1974. This riot continued to increase and most of the Imperial family was imprisoned in Addis Ababa prison Kerchele.

--Media reported that the Emperor died on August 27, 1975 because of respiratory failure.
--Another version says that all were ordered to leave the room in which Haile Selassie was there and the next day he was found dead in a strong chemical smelled room.
--In 1992, the Emperor's bones were found under a concrete slab in the palace ground.
--Some say that his bones were found under a latrine.
His death is still a mystery. There is still doubt that the Emperor indeed died in 1975.

Sushma Gupta
www.sushmajee.com