Gospel | Chapter 4: Oct 16, 1882 (Part 4) | 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."
This session was recorded on Dec 21, 2021.
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| 0:00.0 | So, |
| 0:04.0 | Sohavakathamritam tapti-jivanam, kavi-vidhidam, Kalma-shapha-Mangalam Shri-Madatatam, Bhiviridhājana. |
| 0:20.0 | So we are studying the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, which is the translation, the English translation of the Bengali Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kotham Rito. |
| 0:28.6 | And we were on a long section, which was the conversations on 16th October 1882, 16th October 1882. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm going to be reading from page 1224, from the bottom half of the page 124. |
| 0:58.0 | About half past 10, Narendra and his Brahmo friends were meditating in the Panchavati. |
| 1:05.0 | After a while, Sri Ramakrishna came to them, M2 was present. The master said to the Brahmo devotees, |
| 1:14.1 | In meditation, one must be absorbed in God by merely floating on the surface of the water, |
| 1:21.0 | can you reach the gems lying at the bottom of the sea? Then he sang, taking the name of Kali, dive deep down, O Mind, into the |
| 1:31.1 | heart's fathomless depths where many a precious gem lies head, but never believe that the |
| 1:37.9 | bed of the ocean bear of gems. If in the first few dives you fail, with firm resolve and self-control, dive deep and make your way to Mother Kali's realm. |
| 1:50.7 | Down in the ocean depths of heavenly wisdom lie, the wondrous pearls of peace, O mind, and you yourself can gather them if you but have pure love and follow the scripture's rule. |
| 2:05.6 | Within those ocean depths as well, six alligators lurk, lust, anger and the rest, swimming about in search of prey. |
| 2:15.7 | Smear yourself with the turmeric of discrimination. The very smell of it |
| 2:20.2 | will shield you from their jaws. Upon the ocean bed lies trune, unnumbered pearls and precious |
| 2:27.0 | gems. Plunge in, says Ram Prasad, and gather up handfuls there. There is a footnote. |
| 2:36.0 | The six alligators are the six passions, |
| 2:40.0 | lust, anger, avarice, delusion, pride and envy. |
| 2:45.0 | Narendra and his friends came down from their seats |
| 2:49.0 | on the raised platform of the Panchabati and stood near the master. |
| 2:54.4 | He turned to them, he turned, he returned to his room with them. The master continued. When you |
| 3:01.9 | plunge in the water of the ocean, you may be attacked by alligators, but they won't touch you if your body is |
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