Gospel | Chapter 4: Oct 22 1882 (Part 2) | 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."
This session was recorded on Jan 11, 2022.
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| 0:00.0 | So, |
| 0:04.0 | Tavakathamritam, Tapti-vanam, |
| 0:07.5 | Kavidhya-vidam, Kalma-Shavanam, |
| 0:11.0 | Sravanam-Dathatatam Bhuvigrin'anthi, |
| 0:14.0 | Bhuridhājana. |
| 0:16.0 | So we actually the portion I'm going to read is something that we had read last time, |
| 0:28.6 | but we hadn't discussed it. It's a long portion. This is on Sunday 22nd, October 1882. |
| 0:39.0 | And we are going to go back to page 128 |
| 0:42.3 | the same day. |
| 0:44.7 | There's a lot of discussion here |
| 0:45.9 | which we haven't actually talked about. |
| 0:49.7 | So I'll just quickly read through |
| 0:51.1 | and we'll talk about it as we go along. |
| 0:53.7 | But we read all this last time. |
| 0:56.5 | Page 128. |
| 0:59.0 | So M had asked, what does one feel when thinking about God without form? |
| 1:04.8 | Isn't it possible to describe it? |
| 1:07.2 | And then Sri Ramakrishna says something and then follows it by saying that one must |
| 1:14.3 | understand, one must practice spiritual discipline to understand this correctly. |
| 1:19.1 | Suppose there are treasures in a room if you want to see them, it won't do to just stand |
| 1:22.5 | near the door and say that now I'm opening the door, now I'm unlocking the chest, breaking |
| 1:26.5 | open the chest, now I'm taking out the treasures. |
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