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

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🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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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 this is the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna class.
0:07.0	And for those who are coming in for the first time, it's not a class like the other classes.
0:13.0	It's more of a reading of the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna and an open-ended discussion.
0:18.0	Other classes we are actually studying a text.
0:21.8	But here we are reading and discussing.
0:26.4	All right.
0:27.7	Oh,
0:28.3	Tawakatham,
0:29.9	taptah,
0:30.3	jivanam,
0:31.0	kavidhāhāhavaham,
0:33.4	Shravanam,
0:34.7	Shre Madhattatam,
0:35.8	Bhuvigrinanthi,
0:36.8	Bhrida, I must sharena Mangalam Shrema'am Shrema'a'am Bhuvigrinanthi Burydhajanah.
0:39.7	I must share this with you.
0:42.5	I was just talking to the eminent philosopher Arindam Chakravati
0:46.6	and see how one can do close reading of a text.
0:52.0	So I asked him something about Girish Ghosh, the noted dramatist,
0:56.4	who was deeply devoted to Sri Ramakrishna. And then he took me on a journey. If you read
1:03.0	the gospel on the date 27th October 1885, we are not going to go there today, but you can just note it and read it
1:13.2	yourself later on. So he says, look at what is going on there. Srirama Krishna is ill with cancer
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