So,

So in the Tavakha, Mritam taptiivanam, kavi-viridam kalmashaphaam, shavanam

Sramanam Bhuvigrinanti, buridajanah.

So in the Tuesday class, we read the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, which is the English translation of the Sri Ramakrishna Kathamritah, the Bengali record of the discussions and the dialogues of Sri Ramakrishna.

We are using this version of the Ram Krishna Kathamritu.

This is the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna published by, again, in New York itself actually, the Ramakrishna Viveka in the center.

Now, today we'll read from page 117, page 117, and the date is 16th October 1882.

But before I go in there, just a couple of comments about page 116.

In the middle of that, page 116.

In the middle of that, page 116, in the middle of that, Sriramakrishna says,

one must propitiate the divine mother, the primal energy,

in order to obtain God's grace.

God himself is Mahamaya. See again because of the limitation of English,

you have to say God himself, but actually Mahamaya is feminine and Sir Ramchristna always used it.

He meant it in the feminine because he meant the divine mother. For him, it was Kali. God himself is Mahamaya who deludes the world with her illusion. You see how you trip up over the gender if you constantly use the male to talk about God.

Notice the interesting sentence.

God himself is Mahamaya who deludes the world with her illusion.

So there's himself and you are forced to change it to her the moment you use Mahamaya, which is feminine,

and conjures up the magic of creation, preservation, and destruction.

She has spread this veil of ignorance before our eyes. We can go into the inner chamber only when she lets us pass through the door. Living outside, we see only outer objects,

but not that eternal being, existence, knowledge, bliss, absolute.

Therefore, it is stated in the Purana, that deities like Brahma praise Mahamaya for the

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