The Swami's health was failing rapidly. Besides diabetes, from which he had been suffering, he had had at Dacca another very severe attack of asthma. His disciples were very anxious, when it was discovered that the climate of Shillong had done him no good. During the asthmatic attack, the Swami said half-dreamily, as if to himself: “What does it matter! I have given them enough for fifteen hundred years!" He felt that he could die in peace now that he had given his message to the world, and that if the Western nations accepted his spiritual ideals and India adopted his plans for her regeneration, there was work ahead of both sufficient for fifteen hundred years.
(“Swami Vivekananda – A Biography: By His Eastern & Western Disciples”, Advaita Ashrama 1960, Ch. XXXVIII “A Trip to East Bengal and Life at the Math”, p. 709)
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