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Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

(3/3) Avatara - Story of Sri Ramakrishna by Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Religion & Spirituality, Hinduism

4.8681 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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75,352 views Feb 18, 2018 Divine Personalities | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Swami Sarvapriyananda speaks on “Avatara - Story of Sri Ramakrishna” Part 3/3 at the Vedanta Society of New York on February 18, 2018, celebrating the birthday of Sri Ramakrishna | Vedanta NY


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Or God is my master.

0:10.0

So Hanuman who served Ramachandra.

0:17.0

Sri Ramakrishna practiced that too.

0:19.0

At one time the mood of Hanuman came on him.

0:21.6

So Hanuman is of course a monkey, so Sri Ramakrishna would start spending time on tree branches.

0:29.6

And he would tie his dothi in such a way that it would be like a tail.

0:33.6

And he would hop from tree to tree and he ate fruits whole and in a deep voice

0:42.3

he says I became very restless like a monkey and my eyes would be bloodshot red and bloodshot

0:49.3

and I would be on the branch of a tree and in the deep and hoarse voice I would cry out Rama.

0:57.0

He had a vision of Rama. He had a vision of Sita.

1:01.0

He saw this wonderful, glorious form.

1:06.0

He said not like a goddess with supernatural attributes, but like a human being, but definitely

1:12.5

deeply spiritual and radiating a kind of divine sorrow.

1:18.0

And he says he realized that that must have been Sita.

1:20.9

And Sita, he was about to fall at the feet of that vision when that vision merged into

1:26.4

his body.

1:33.3

Sir Ramakrishna would say that she had the most wonderful smile, sorrowful picture, but the most wonderful, the sweetest smile that he had ever seen in his life.

1:40.3

And Swami Saradaranda remarked that when Sita merged into his body, he got that smile

1:46.0

because his smile was the most amazing thing that people had seen.

1:50.0

One picture is there where he is smiling.

1:53.0

You can see that, one of the pictures which was taken of him when he was in ecstasy.

1:59.0

He practiced that. He practiced the Vatsali Abasy. He practiced that.

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