In this class, we study the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, which is an English translation of Sri

Sri Ramakrishna Kathamritah, which is a record of the dialogues of Sri Ramakrishna, the teachings of Sri Ramakrishna, as noted by M.

Mahindranad Gupta, who was a school teacher, one of the close disciples of Sri Ramakrishna,

who saw Sri Ramakrishna in the last four or five years of his life and went regularly to listen to him and went

back and took notes and Sri Ramakrishna actually encouraged him so it sort of sounds like a grand

plan because he would ask him to repeat what he, Sri Ramakrishna had taught and would correct

him once, you know that I did not say that, I said it in this way, almost like he wanted this book to be, I wouldn't say almost it, certainly that he wanted this book to be written, because

Swami Shivanandha, another disciple of Sri Ramak Krishna, who became Tarak at that time who became a monk

Swami Shivananda later on.

He to once started writing down what Sri Ramakrishna was saying.

And Sri Ram Krishna looked at him and said, what are you doing?

And he said, I'm writing down what you're saying.

It's so valuable.

I'm writing it down so that I don't forget.

And Sri Ramakrishna said, it is not for you.

Stop that.

And so Tarak, Swami Shevhwanan, he threw away his notebook into the Ganga.

But it just goes to show that there was this plan, call it a divine plan behind this

book. So we are in early days yet. It is 22nd October 1882. It's a Sunday. So most of the times

you'll see a Saturday or a Sunday because

that's when M who was a school teacher would have a holiday and in fact many of the household

devotees they had it was not a work day. They were able to visit Sri Ramakrish on weekends.

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