Gospel | Chapter 5: Oct 27, 1882 (Part 4) | Swami Sarvapriyananda
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🗓️ 17 January 2026
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The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna | Swami Sarvapriyananda
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 | So, we are stilling |
| 0:04.0 | Tavakathamritam tapti-jivanam, |
| 0:08.0 | Kavividetham Kalma-Shavaam-Mangalam-Galam Shri-Madatatam |
| 0:13.0 | Bhubhigrinantii Bhuridhajanah. |
| 0:17.0 | So we are studying the Gospel of Sri-R, Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrito. |
| 0:26.0 | And we were on a particularly lengthy section. |
| 0:29.8 | The date is 27th October 1882. |
| 0:35.5 | And Keshav Chandra Sain with a group of Brahmo devotees have come to visit Sri Ramakrishna. |
| 0:40.9 | And they have come on a boat. And Sri Ramakrishna has actually gone. A boat means not a small |
| 0:45.7 | boat, a big steamer on the Ganga. So Sri Ramakrishna has been taken to that steamer. And now he's in |
| 0:52.6 | there and he's talking to the devotees there. |
| 0:57.4 | The material is pretty dense, wonderful, there's a lot of wonderful teachings here. |
| 1:03.9 | Page 135. |
| 1:07.7 | There he has already given this classic teaching that the reality is one and the same |
| 1:13.3 | difference is in name and form and then applies it it is like water called in different |
| 1:19.9 | languages by different names jarl pani and so forth three or four ghats on a lake the |
| 1:24.7 | Hindus who drink water at one place call it jarl the, the Muslims at another place and call it Pani. |
| 1:29.3 | The English at a third place and call it water. |
| 1:31.3 | All three denote the one and the same thing, the difference being in name only. |
| 1:36.3 | In the same way, some address the reality as Allah, some as God, some as Brahman, some as Kali, and others by such names and Ram, |
| 1:45.0 | Jesus, Durga, Hari, and so on. |
| 1:48.0 | So this is Svami, Sri Ramakrishna's famous teaching of the harmony of religions. |
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