Samindranath dies while they are on vacation in Mungher.

While the family is on vacation in Monghyr in Bihar, Samindranath dies of cholera on 23 November 1907, the same day his mother had died five years before. He is only eleven years old. Tagore writes:

“When his last moment was about to come I was sitting alone in the dark in an adjoining room, praying intently for his passing away to his next stage of existence in perfect peace and well-being. At a particular point of time my mind seemed to float in a sky where there was neither darkness nor light, but a profound depth of calm, a boundless sea of consciousness without a ripple or murmur. I saw the vision of my son lying in the heart of the Infinite and I was about to cry to my friend, who was nursing the boy in the next room, that the child was safe, that he had found his liberation. I felt like a father who had sent his son across the sea, relieved to learn of his safe arrival and succes in finding his place. I felt at once that the physcial nearness of our dear ones to ourselves is not the final meaning of their protection. It is merely a means of satisfaction to our own selves and not necessarily the best that could be wished for them.”

Even though Rabindranath has suffered many bereavements shortly before, his son Rathindranath writes later that Samindranath’s death had a particularly strong impact on his father and left him more lonely than the previous losses.