Gospel | Chapter 5: Oct 27, 1882 (Part 5) | Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Society of New York
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🗓️ 25 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 15, 2022.
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| 0:00.0 | Before I start, I just want to mention the author M, his great grandson, Deepak Chakakakak |
| 0:14.0 | he passed recently, passed very recently a couple of weeks ago. |
| 0:20.0 | He was a wonderful gentleman, very devoted. |
| 0:25.3 | He finally converted their ancestral house into an ashram, where M had lived and he had written |
| 0:33.0 | the gospel all his life. |
| 0:39.5 | So in the old house in Calcutta, |
| 0:43.0 | but it's now an ashram of the Ramakrishna order and he was instrumental in getting it done. |
| 0:47.9 | I've heard him tell many stories |
| 0:50.3 | about how he saw his grandmother, |
| 0:53.7 | who was M's daughter-in-law. |
| 0:57.0 | Yes, when who was initiated by the Holy Mother, whom the Holy Mother loved, |
| 1:05.0 | Maharashtra loved a lot. So he said he remembers how when she passed in her, she was a very, very devout lady. |
| 1:17.0 | And when she passed, her last words were, oh, mother, grace, grace, grace, grace, gris, grpa, grpa, ma, ma, ma. |
| 1:25.5 | And then she passed. |
| 1:29.5 | He was himself a very devout person. |
| 1:50.5 | The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, we are on a long section where Sri Ramakrishna is speaking with Keshapsane and the, yes, somebody says we had visited the place and met him. Right. Some people have, among you, some must have visited. And when I remember when I first visited it, at that time it was their house. It was not an ashram and monks would be allowed in to take a look around |
| 2:06.7 | so keshap sain and the members of his brahmho samaj they visited sri dhrama kristna |
| 2:12.2 | it's a pretty dramatic scene they come in a big boat, a steamer, like a small ship. |
| 2:20.6 | And the Sri Ramakrishna goes in a small boat across to that steamer. |
| 2:24.3 | And then in that, in a cabin, he is there surrounded by all these devotees. |
| 2:29.5 | And then he's talking about, is giving spiritual teachings. |
| 2:32.8 | So this is going on. |
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