Gospel | Chapter 4: Aug 24, 1882 (Part 2) | Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
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🗓️ 18 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 09, 2021.
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| 0:00.0 | So we are the |
| 0:03.0 | Kalma Shambhāhmanghalam Shrema Shrema Theramanjala |
| 0:08.0 | Bhuvigrinanti |
| 0:10.0 | Bhuridhājana |
| 0:12.0 | So we are reading the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna |
| 0:15.0 | which is the English translation of |
| 0:18.0 | Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrito. |
| 0:36.2 | The date is 24th August 1882, 24th August 1882, and we are on page 113. |
| 0:38.6 | Page 113. |
| 0:43.5 | In the middle of the page, we have read some of this last time. |
| 0:46.0 | So I'm going to start from the middle of the page. |
| 0:51.5 | It was almost dusk. |
| 0:59.0 | The master and M stood talking alone near the door on the southeast veranda. Master to M. The mind of the yogi is always fixed on God, always absorbed in the self, |
| 1:08.0 | with capital S. You can recognize such a man by merely looking at him. |
| 1:13.9 | His eyes are wide open with an aimless look like the eyes of a mother bird hatching her |
| 1:21.2 | eggs. Her entire mind is fixed on the eggs and there is a vacant look in her eyes. Can you show me such a picture? |
| 1:30.3 | M. I shall try to get one. As the evening came on, the temples were lighted up. Sri |
| 1:40.3 | Ramakrishna was seated on a small couch, meditating on the divine mother. |
| 1:45.0 | Then he chanted the names of God. |
| 1:48.0 | Incense was burnt in the room where an oil lamp had been lighted. |
| 1:53.0 | Sounds of gaunt shells and gongs came on floating on the air as the evening worship began in the temple of Kali. |
| 2:01.6 | The light of the moon flooded all the quarters. |
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