Gospel | Chapter 5: Oct 27, 1882 (Part 3) | Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Society of New York
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🗓️ 6 January 2026
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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 Feb 1, 2022.
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| 0:00.0 | So in today's |
| 0:02.0 | So in today's |
| 0:04.0 | Amritam taptajivanam |
| 0:07.0 | Kabiviritam Kalma Shavanam |
| 0:10.0 | angalamangalam Shrema Datham |
| 0:13.0 | Bhuvigrinanthi |
| 0:14.0 | Bhuri Dhajanah |
| 0:16.0 | So in today's class we studied the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, the English translation of the Kathamritha. |
| 0:26.6 | Now if you remember, we were on page 133 in my book. This is October 27th, 1882, October 27th, 1882, the master and |
| 0:44.3 | Kashab. We have been reading this, but it's a pretty dense section, so we have been taking |
| 0:49.9 | it slow. If you see in the middle of that page, you can see, Sri Ramakrishna is saying, |
| 0:58.2 | the different paths, the path of knowledge, the path of yoga and the path of devotion. Giana yoga, |
| 1:04.2 | Dhyana yoga and Bhakti yoga. He who is called Brahman by the Giani is known as Atman by the yogis and Bhagavan by the Bhaktas. |
| 1:12.9 | If you see that. |
| 1:14.6 | But it's the same reality because he says, there is one Brahmin who is called the priest, |
| 1:20.3 | Pujari, who is worshipping in the temple. |
| 1:22.7 | And the cook when he's preparing a meal in the kitchen. |
| 1:32.5 | Similarly, the gaii calls that same reality, Brahman, the absolute reality of the universe. The yogi says that he's the self within us, |
| 1:37.6 | and the devotee says he's Bhagawain, the Lord of the universe. And I pointed out last time, |
| 1:43.0 | how implicit in this is the Tatawam Asi, that thou art. |
| 1:47.0 | That the god of the devotee, the Bhagawana of Bhaktah. |
| 1:52.0 | Thou, you, your own reality is the Atman of the yogi, the Purusha of the Sankhya or the Patanjal Yogi. |
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