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Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Gospel | Chapter 2: Apr 9, 1882 (Part 3) | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Religion & Spirituality, Hinduism

4.8681 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2025

⏱️ 59 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 May 4, 2021.


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0:00.0

So we are we are studying

0:06.0

Tovakathamritam taptiivanam khabi videtam Kalma shavanamanghalam

0:10.0

shhmanamhāāāāāāāāāhhhhhhhhhh So we are studying the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna.

0:23.6

And we are at the beginning, almost close to the beginning of the book.

0:30.6

The date is 9th April 1882, Sunday, April 9, 1882.

0:38.3

And we are on page 97 on my book.

0:47.3

So let me read. A part of this I read last time, but I'll read through it again.

0:53.3

So I'm page on page 97, the third paragraph.

1:02.6

So this is, Sharam Krishna is in Pran Krishna Mukherjee's house in Calcutta, who is visiting.

1:07.6

And it's in the afternoon.

1:09.6

So one of Pran Krishna's neighbors, a lot of people have come to see him.

1:12.6

So one of the neighbors is asking a question.

1:15.6

A neighbor, why does a man have sinful tendencies?

1:20.6

Why does a man have sinful tendencies?

1:22.6

A master. In God's creation there are all sorts of things.

1:26.6

He has created bad men as well as good men.

1:30.1

It is he who gives us good tendencies and it is he again who has given us evil tendencies.

1:36.1

Neighbor, in that case, we aren't responsible for our sinful actions. Are we?

1:41.5

Master, sin begets its own result. This is God's law. Won't you burn your tongue if you chew a chili? In his youth, Mathur, so the footnote, the son-in-law of Rani Rashmanian, a great devotee of Sri Ramakrishna, whom he provided with all the necessaries of life at the temple garden. In his youth, Masur led a rather fast life, so he suffered from various diseases before his death.

2:06.6

One may not realize this in his youth.

2:11.6

I have looked into the hearth in the kitchen of the Kali temple where logs are being burnt.

2:18.3

At first the wet wood burns rather well.

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