Gospel | Chapter 6: Oct 28, 1882 (Part 4) | Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Society of New York
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🗓️ 16 March 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 May 3, 2022.
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| 0:00.0 | So, |
| 0:04.0 | Sohavakathamritam, tapti-vanam, kavi-viritham, Kalma-Shavanam |
| 0:10.0 | Sravanaam-Magalam Shri-Madhatadam Bhuvigrinanthi-hii-Grinanthi Burydhajanah. |
| 0:17.0 | So in this class, we read this book, the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, which is the translation |
| 0:21.9 | of the Bengali Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathambitra, which collected conversations of Sri |
| 0:27.3 | Ramakrishna. |
| 0:29.8 | All right. |
| 0:30.2 | And this is more of a reading together and more conversation. |
| 0:37.1 | It's not exactly Vedantah class like the other texts. |
| 0:41.4 | We are on date 28 October 1882. It's a long conversation with the Brahma devotees. |
| 0:57.0 | There's a very close discussion of non-dualism. |
| 1:02.0 | The question was, this was on page 148. We were discussing it. |
| 1:06.0 | Page 148. The question was whether God has form or no forms. |
| 1:10.0 | And then he actually goes from there for discussion of dualism and non-dualism. |
| 1:15.5 | So very interesting discussion. |
| 1:18.2 | The Brahmo devotee says, sir, has God forms or has he none? |
| 1:22.2 | Then Sri Ramakrishna says, I've read this earlier, but I'll read it again. |
| 1:26.1 | No one can say with finality that God is only this and nothing else. He's formless and again he has forms. For the Bhaktha, he assumes forms, but he is formless for the gaii. That is for him who looks on the world as a mere dream. The Bhaktha feels that he is one entity and the world another. |
| 1:48.0 | Therefore, God reveals himself to him as a person. |
| 1:52.0 | But the Guany, the Vedantist, for instance, always reasons, |
| 1:56.0 | applying the process of not this, not this. |
| 1:59.0 | Through this discrimination, he realizes by his inner perception |
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