Gospel | Chapter 8: Feb 25, 1883 | Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Society of New York
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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 | Master to Ram and the other devotees. |
| 0:07.0 | Devotees like Rakhal, Narendra and Bhavanaat may be called Nitya Siddha. |
| 0:14.0 | So Rakhal is Swami Brahmananda and Narendra is Vivekananda. |
| 0:19.0 | And Bhavanat was another young man who used to visit. Later became a spiritual teacher. |
| 0:22.6 | It was not in our order, but he was of a slightly different nature, but also very advanced spiritually. |
| 0:28.6 | And Sri Ramakrishna says, they may be called nittia siddha. |
| 0:32.6 | Literally it means ever perfected. |
| 0:36.6 | Their spiritual consciousness has been awake since their very birth. |
| 0:42.3 | They assume human bodies only to impart spiritual illumination to others. |
| 0:47.3 | There is another class of devotees known as Kripa Siddha, that is to say, |
| 0:53.3 | those on whom the grace of God descends, |
| 0:57.0 | all of a sudden, and who at once attain his vision and knowledge. |
| 1:03.1 | Such people may be likened to a room that has been dark a thousand years, |
| 1:08.4 | which, when a lamp is brought into it becomes light immediately not |
| 1:14.5 | little by little those who lead a household life should practice spiritual |
| 1:20.2 | discipline they should pray eagerly to God in solitude to mr. Chowdh, God cannot be realized through scholarship, who indeed can understand |
| 1:31.4 | the spirit of, thinks of the spirit through reason. |
| 1:34.5 | No, all should strive for devotion to the lotus feet of God. |
| 1:39.8 | Infinite are the glories of God. |
| 1:41.9 | How little can you fathom them? |
| 1:47.0 | Can you ever find out the meaning of God's ways? Bishma was none other than one of the eight Vasus, |
| 1:51.0 | but even he shed tears on his bed of arrows. |
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