Gospel | Chapter 4: Aug 24, 1882 (Part 1) | Swami Sarvapriyananda
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🗓️ 7 September 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 Nov 02, 2021.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, |
| 0:04.0 | So, |
| 0:06.0 | Tavakhamritham tapti-javanam |
| 0:08.0 | Khabi-viridam Kalma-Shavanam |
| 0:12.0 | Srema-Galam Bhubi-Grinandhi |
| 0:14.0 | Bhuri-Jana |
| 0:16.0 | So in the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, |
| 0:20.0 | we are going to start on page 112 in my book. |
| 0:26.8 | The date is 24th August 1882. |
| 0:30.7 | 24th August 1882. |
| 0:32.9 | Sri Ramakrishna was talking to Hazra on the long northeast veranda of his room when M arrived. |
| 0:44.3 | He saluted the master reverently. |
| 0:47.3 | Master, I should like to visit Ishwajandra Vidyasaagar a few times more. |
| 0:53.3 | So let's just remember that this is |
| 0:56.0 | all very close to the date when he visited Isha Chandra Vidyazaga. So we had this long dialogue |
| 1:02.0 | between Vidyazaga and Sri Ramakrishna. And so that's what he's referring to when he sees |
| 1:08.1 | M come in and Sir Ram Krishna say that I would like to visit |
| 1:12.6 | Vindyasaagra a few more times though he did not actually you know it never happened |
| 1:16.6 | I should like to visit Ishw Chandra Vidyazaga a few times more the painter first draws the |
| 1:24.6 | general outlines and then puts in the details and colors at his leisure. |
| 1:30.3 | The molder first makes the image out of clay, then plasters it, then gives it a coat of whitewash, |
| 1:37.3 | and last of all paints it with a brush. All these steps must be taken successively. Vidyasagar is fully ready. |
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