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🗓️ 30 June 2025
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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 | This is the Gha'amritam, taphthams, t'javanam, khalma shavanam, shravana, shamanam |
0:10.0 | Shrema'adha'adha'am Bhuvigrin'anthi bharidhajanah. |
0:16.0 | This is the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna class. |
0:20.0 | And here it's more like we are studying this text together. |
0:25.6 | So we are on visit to Vidyāsagar, Sri Ramakrishna's visit to Vidyazaga. And let's move to page 102. |
0:38.3 | The date is 5th August 1882. |
0:42.1 | And it's a long chapter but full of very interesting discussions. |
0:47.2 | One man, Sudhama Krishna is speaking. |
0:50.1 | One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp |
0:53.9 | and another may commit a forgery by that very light. |
0:58.4 | But the lamp is unaffected. The sun sheds its light on the wicked as well as on the virtuous. |
1:07.3 | You may ask, how then can one explain misery and sin and unhappiness? |
1:13.6 | The answer is that all these apply only to the Jiva. |
1:17.6 | Brahman is unaffected by them. |
1:19.6 | There is poison in a snake, but though others may die if bitten by it, |
1:25.6 | the snake itself is not affected by the poison. |
1:29.6 | What Brahman is cannot be described. |
1:32.6 | All things in the world, the Vedas, the Puranas, the tantras, the sick systems of philosophy |
1:37.3 | have been defiled like food that has been touched by the tongue, for they have been read or |
1:42.6 | uttered by the tongue. |
1:45.9 | Only one thing has not been defiled in this way and that is brahman no one has able ever been able to say what |
1:51.7 | brahman is vidyasagar to his friends oh that is a remarkable statement i have learned something |
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