Amtabhāamritam,

Tavakathamridaevanam, Kaviviritam, Kallma Shara

Manganamhāsaidhāāya, Bhuri-Grin'anthi Bharidhajanāhya,

Amhyaa. Happy Dasha, Namaste and good evening everybody happy Dashera

our Shubha Vijayah is the same thing

this is the conclusion of the worship of the divine mother

Durga

also the victory of good over evil.

We are studying the Gospel of Srirama Krishna

and we are on page 189 in my book.

That is the date is 11 March 1883.

11th March 1883.

That happened to be Sri Ramakrishna's birthday.

So a lot of people have come and the celebrations are just getting underway.

And there's going to be music, quite the party.

So we're going to, I'm reading from the bottom of page 189.

As usual, I'll read through a page or two and then we will discuss it and

you're free to ask questions, give your observations and so on. So it's been going on for some

time. You remember the discussions Siddharamakrishna had with the devotees before this.

Now, presently some devotees from Konnagar arrived, singing keetan to the accompaniment of drums

and cymbals.

As they reached the northeast veranda of Sri Ramakrishna's room, the master joined in the music, dancing with them,

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