The body, which was taken out of the institute earlier in the day, was brought to the Math in the the evening, via the Narendrapur Ramakrishna Mission Ashram which he founded in 1958. After being brought to the Math, the body was kept for some time in a hall of the arogya bhavan (monks' infirmiry), before being taken to the nearby crematorium on the banks of the Hoogly. The pyre was lit by senior monks at 10 pm.

An authority on education and an exponent of vedanta and philosophy Shri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda, Swami Lokeswarananda was admitted to the hospital on Monday following stomach upset.

His condition deteriorated at on Thursday and he suffered a cardiac arrest. He breathed his last soonafter. A former member of UGC Committee on Higher Education and committees for the upliftment of the backward communities at the central and the state level, he spent more than forty years looking after destitute boys, running schools and educating the physically handicapped. He had also worked life for the upliftment of the backward classes, rural welfare work and distribution of relief to the distressed in India, Burma and Bangladesh. He had also initiated adult literacy movements in different parts of West Bengal.