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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."
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0:00.0 | So in the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, we are in the meeting of Sri Ramakrishna and the |
0:10.0 | and Vidyasagar. So this is 5th August 1882. 5th August 1882 and page 101 at the bottom of the page 101 we had already started this |
0:34.4 | it's a lot of heavy duty heavy duty Vedanta is going to come. But before I go into that, |
0:40.3 | a couple of very touching anecdotes about M. So the source for this is Swami Chetanandaji. |
0:52.3 | And many, many years, in fact decades ago, Swami Chetanandhi and many, many years, in fact decades ago, |
0:55.0 | Swami Chetananjee was visiting an old Swami, |
0:59.0 | Swami Dharmeshananda in Kashi in Benaras, |
1:03.0 | where the Swami Dharmehashananda was spending his last days there. |
1:07.0 | And, Swami Dharmehashananda had come into close contact with M. |
1:11.6 | So Swami Chitrananji was eager to get some information, some reminiscences about M directly from Swami Dharmeshan. |
1:21.6 | So he got it on tape and he transcribed it. It's been published, but just a couple of very touching anecdotes about M. |
1:31.7 | So Swami Dharmishananda says that when he was a student, he read the gospel of Sri Ramakrishna and he was very impressed. |
1:38.3 | So another gentleman told him that the author, M, is still alive. Would you like to go and meet him? |
1:42.9 | And of course, the young man had this said, I would like to go and meet him. |
1:46.0 | And so they went to M's house. |
1:48.0 | So the first meeting, M was giving the Prasad of Jagannath. |
1:56.0 | So it was close to Rathayatra Day, which is coming up, in fact, Rathyaatra. |
2:01.4 | So he was giving the Prasad of Jagannath to everybody and he said, M said to everybody, |
2:05.8 | if a group of people had gathered around. |
2:08.0 | So it said to everybody that Sri Ramakrishna is to take the Prasad of Jagarnat every day. |
2:14.8 | And M also did that every day. |
2:17.1 | And Sri Ramakrishna is to say that this Prasad of Jagarnat, Lord Jagannat of Puri, |
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