Gospel | Chapter 1: Feb 1882 (Part 2) | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Religion & Spirituality, Hinduism

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🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Swami Sarvapriyananda reads and discusses the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna is an English translation of the Bengali spiritual text Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita by Swami Nikhilananda. The text records conversations of Ramakrishna with his disciples, devotees and visitors, recorded by Mahendranath Gupta, who wrote the book under the pseudonym of "M."

This session was recorded on Mar 2, 2021.

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0:00.0	So
0:02.0	So
0:05.0	Tavakatham,
0:07.0	Thabtah,
0:08.0	javanam kaviyanam
0:10.0	Shravanamanganghalam Shrema
0:13.0	Bhuvigrinanti
0:15.0	Pridhahjanah.
0:17.0	So we have started
0:20.0	rereading the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna all over again.
0:24.7	But what I wanted to share with you today before we get back to the gospel itself is
0:34.8	Paul Brunton's book, A Search in Secret India, which is very well known.
0:38.3	Many spiritual seekers have read that book.
0:41.3	Abhijit reminded me that there's a very nice section about M there, Master Mahashai.
0:48.3	Some of you may have read it already, but I'd like to read it.
0:52.3	It's very relevant here. So Paul Brunton, who was all over India, he met Ramanah Mharshi.
0:58.0	In fact, he was the one who made Ramanamarshi known widely around the world by writing about him in detail in English.
1:07.0	So he comes to Calcutta and in the train he sees a gentleman reading a book,
1:15.7	Life of Ramakrishna, and he's in the book in English.
1:19.9	And so he's curious and he asked the gentleman, they start talking about Sri Ramakrishna.
1:24.8	And the gentleman said to Paul that he knew one of Sri Ramakrishna's
1:31.1	living disciples, direct living disciples, master Mahasha, in fact the one who wrote down the gospel of
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