Gospel | Chapter 3: Aug 5, 1882 (Part 1) | Swami Sarvapriyananda

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🗓️ 29 April 2025

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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 25, 2021.

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0:00.0	A very great scholar of Dwighta Vedanta, Shrinivas Varqedi.
0:09.8	He is the vice chancellor of a university there right now, I think.
0:14.7	I met him a long time ago in our Vivekanth University at Belurmat.
0:24.7	Wonderful scholar of Madhva Vedanta.
0:29.7	In fact, he gave me a very nice insight.
0:35.3	He said, Swami, if you ask the same Upanishads, three questions,
0:39.4	you will get three darshanas, three philosophies. If you ask the Upanishads,
0:45.7	what is true and what is false? The answer you will get is the philosophy of Adwaita Vedant.
0:52.8	If you ask the question, what is Purna and what is amsha, what is full and what is part,
0:55.2	what is partial and what is complete,
0:58.0	then you will get the philosophy from the same Upanishads.
1:00.5	You will get the philosophy of Vishishtad, Dwayta Vedant.
1:04.7	And if you ask what is independent and what is dependent,
1:10.6	Svatantra and Paratantra, you will get the philosophy of Madhva Vedant, Dwightavidanta. So the same, how the same set of texts can generate multiple philosophy.
1:16.6	So I've never heard this before.
1:17.6	It's a very nice way of looking at it.
1:19.6	Ome, Thawakatham, tapta, Jivanam, Kavhidhāya, Kalma shavanam, shavanam
1:26.6	Shavanam Shrema-zharata-Tam Bhuvigrinandhi Bhuri Dajana
1:35.0	We are studying the gospel of Sri Ramakrishna and we are on chapter three We're going to start chapter 3.
1:49.0	Page 99.
1:54.0	Visit to Vidya Sagar.
1:56.0	So I'm going to read.
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