Gospel | Chapter 4: Oct 16, 1882 (Part 3) | Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
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🗓️ 8 December 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 | The Gospel of Ritam, |
| 0:03.0 | Daphtam, |
| 0:06.0 | the Javanam, Khabi Vididam Kalma Shavanam, |
| 0:10.0 | Sravanam Shrema Datham, |
| 0:12.0 | Bhavigrinantii, |
| 0:14.0 | Bharida, Janah. |
| 0:20.0 | The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. |
| 0:26.9 | And we are on 16th October 1882. |
| 0:32.3 | And we are continuing this day. |
| 0:38.3 | We were on page 122. |
| 0:42.3 | Page 122. So in the middle of the page |
| 0:47.3 | Srirama Krishna sang and danced |
| 0:51.3 | and the devotees danced around him. |
| 0:55.0 | When the song was over, the master walked up and down the northeast veranda, |
| 1:01.0 | where Hazra was seated with M. |
| 1:05.0 | The master sat down there. He asked a devotee, |
| 1:08.0 | Do you ever have dreams? |
| 1:10.0 | By which he means spiritual dreams. Devotee, yes, sir. |
| 1:15.1 | The other day I dreamt a strange dream. I saw the whole world enveloped in water. There was water on all |
| 1:22.3 | sides. A few boats were visible, but suddenly huge waves appeared and sank them. I was about to board a ship with a few others when we saw a Brahmin walking over that expanse of water. I asked him, how can you walk over the deep? The Brahmin said with a smile, oh, there is no difficulty about that. |
| 1:46.9 | There is a bridge under the water. |
| 1:50.3 | I said to him, where are you going? |
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