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Gospel | Chapter 6: Dec 1882 (Part 3) | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 7 June 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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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 18, 2022.


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So,

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So in this

0:06.0

I'm the Gatamritham,

0:08.0

khavi-viritham, khalma-chama-mangalam

0:11.0

Shrema-dhaatatam Bhuviginantii

0:14.0

Bhuri-dhajanah.

0:16.0

So in this class we read the

0:20.0

Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, which is a translation, English translation

0:23.6

of the Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita, the original being in Bengali, being the conversations

0:29.6

of Sri Ramakrishna, recorded by his disciple Mahindranad Guptapta who comes in this book as M. So whenever you find M,

0:43.1

it means the author of this book actually. All right. Now we are on page 161 in my book.

0:55.7

This is December 1882.

0:57.7

So there's no particular date, but it's December 1882, 161.

1:06.0

It was afternoon.

1:08.1

The master was sitting in his room at Daksineshwar with M and one or two other devotees.

1:15.6

Several Marwari devotees arrived and saluted the master. They requested Sri Ramakrishna to give them spiritual instruction.

1:23.6

He smiled. Master, to the Marwari devotees. You see, the feeling of I and mine is the result of ignorance.

1:33.3

But to say, O God, thou art the doer, all these belong to thee, is the sign of knowledge.

1:40.3

How can you say such a thing as mine?

1:42.3

The superintendent of the garden says, this is my garden.

1:46.7

But if he is dismissed because of some misconduct, then he does not have the courage to take away even such a worthless thing as his mango wood box.

1:56.6

Anger and lust cannot be destroyed.

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