Gospel | Chapter 3: Aug 5, 1882 (Part 9) | Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
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🗓️ 9 August 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."
This session was recorded on Oct 19, 2021.
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| 0:00.0 | Ome Tawakathamritam, tapti-javanam, kaviridhya, kalma-sha-manghalam Shrema-Tadatam, |
| 0:12.0 | Bhuigrinantii Bhuridhidhājana. |
| 0:17.0 | Page 106. |
| 0:25.6 | So this is the meeting with Vidya Sagar continued. Page 106. |
| 0:27.6 | To Vidya Sagar with a smile. |
| 0:31.6 | Well, what is your attitude? |
| 0:33.6 | Before this, Ram Krishna had said, |
| 0:35.6 | Can one know God through reasoning? Be his servant. |
| 0:40.1 | Surrender yourself to him and then pray to him. To Vidyasaagar with a smile. Well, what is your |
| 0:47.6 | attitude? Vidya Sagar, smiling. Someday I shall confide it to you. Paul laugh. Master, laughing, God cannot be realized |
| 0:57.2 | through mere scholarly reasoning. Intoxicated with divine love, the master sang, who is there that can |
| 1:04.6 | understand what Mother Kali is? Even the six darshanas are powerless to reveal her. |
| 1:11.6 | It is she, the scriptures say, that is the inner self of the yogi, who in self discovers all his joy. |
| 1:19.6 | She that of her own sweet will inhabits every living thing. |
| 1:26.6 | The macrocosm and the microcosm rest in the mother's womb. |
| 1:30.3 | Now do you see how vast it is? |
| 1:32.3 | In the Moolahdhara, the yogi meditates on her and in Sahasrara. |
| 1:38.3 | Who but Shiva has beheld her as she really is. |
| 1:42.3 | Within the lotus wilderness, she sports beside her mate the swan. Footnote |
| 1:49.2 | the swan is Shiva the absolute. When man aspires to understand her, Ram Prasad must smile. |
| 1:55.5 | To think of knowing her, he says, is quite as laughable as to imagine one can swim across the boundless sea. |
| 2:04.7 | But while my mind has understood, alas, my heart has not. |
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