Gospel | Chapter 6: Oct 28, 1882 (Part 5) | Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Society of New York
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🗓️ 23 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."
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| 0:00.0 | So, |
| 0:04.0 | So in this |
| 0:06.0 | Kabatamritam daptajivanam |
| 0:08.0 | Khabi Berytam Kalmashaphaam |
| 0:11.0 | Shavanam Shrema Dharataam |
| 0:14.0 | Bhuvigrinanti |
| 0:15.0 | Bhuri Dhajanah |
| 0:17.0 | So in this class we read and discuss the gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, which is the name given to the English translation of the Sri Rama Krishna, which is basically Sri Ramakrishna's teachings and conversations recorded and then later written and published by M. Mahindranad Gupta. |
| 0:47.3 | All right. Now, we were on 28 October 1882. |
| 0:59.0 | 28 October 1882. |
| 1:00.0 | Sri Ramakrishna is speaking with the Brahmo Devetees. |
| 1:04.0 | And we are in the midst of that pretty long conversation, |
| 1:07.0 | page 149. There I'm going to read one paragraph which I've already read. Devotion and knowledge. |
| 1:18.6 | All trouble and botheration come to an end when the eye dies. You may indulge in thousands of |
| 1:25.5 | reasoning, but still the eye doesn't disappear. |
| 1:29.0 | For people like you and me, it's good to have the feeling I am a lover of God. |
| 1:35.5 | The Saguna Brahman is meant for the Bhaktas. |
| 1:39.2 | In other words, a Bhaktah believes that God has attributes and reveals himself to men as a person assuming forms. |
| 1:49.0 | It is he who listens to our prayers. |
| 1:53.0 | The prayers that you utter are directed to him alone. |
| 1:57.0 | You are Bhaktas, not Ghanis or Ved Vedantists. It doesn't matter whether you accept God |
| 2:04.1 | with form or not. It is enough to feel that God is a person who listens to our prayers, |
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