Gospel | Chapter 6: Dec 1882 (Part 2) | Swami Sarvapriyananda
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🗓️ 7 June 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 Oct 4, 2022.
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| 0:00.0 | We are reading the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. |
| 0:06.0 | And in my book, we were on page 160. |
| 0:13.0 | The date is not known. |
| 0:16.8 | It is just December 1882, December 1882. Page 160. |
| 0:22.6 | I'm going to start reading |
| 0:25.6 | the middle of the page after the songs. |
| 0:28.6 | A devotee from Nandan Bagan |
| 0:32.6 | entered the room with his friends. |
| 0:34.6 | The master looked at him and said, everything inside him can be seen through his eyes as one sees the objects in a room through a glass door. This devotee and his brothers always celebrated the anniversary of the Brahmasamaj at their house in Nondon Bagan. |
| 0:56.0 | Sri Ramakrishna had taken part in these festivals. |
| 1:01.0 | The evening worship began in the temples. |
| 1:05.0 | The master was seated on the small couch in his room, absorbed in meditation. |
| 1:15.1 | He went into an ecstatic mood and said a little later, |
| 1:18.8 | Mother, please draw him to thee. |
| 1:21.0 | He is so modest and humble. |
| 1:23.1 | He has been visiting thee. |
| 1:31.3 | Was the master referring to Babu Ram, who later became one of his foremost disciples? The master explained the different kinds of samadhi to the devotees. |
| 1:38.3 | The conversation then turned to the joy and suffering of life. |
| 1:43.3 | Why did God create so much suffering? |
| 1:47.7 | M. Once, Vidyasagar said in a mood of peak, what is the use of calling on God? Just think of |
| 1:56.1 | this incident. At one time, Chengiz Khan plundered a country and imprisoned many people. |
| 2:03.7 | The number of prisoners rose to about 100,000. |
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