Gospel | Chapter 8: Mar 11, 1883 (Part 5) | Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
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🗓️ 7 January 2025
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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 | We are |
| 0:02.0 | We are taking a |
| 0:04.0 | We aretahmritam, |
| 0:06.0 | taphti-jeevanam |
| 0:08.0 | Kaviviritam Kalma-shaphaam |
| 0:11.0 | Sravanam |
| 0:13.0 | Srema Dāttataam |
| 0:14.0 | Bhuvigrinanthi |
| 0:16.0 | Bharidhājana |
| 0:18.0 | We were reading a fairly long, longish section on the birthday of Sri Ramakrishna. |
| 0:30.6 | 11th March 1883, those who have bought the book you can see. |
| 0:35.6 | 11th March 1883, in my book it's on page 1886 |
| 0:41.3 | But we were reading much further along on page 191 and Sri Ramakrishna is talking about to the Vaishnava Goswami |
| 0:52.3 | So as a series of visitors coming throughout the day |
| 0:55.0 | on the festive occasion, and people belonging to different schools of thought, different traditions. |
| 1:04.0 | So there was a Vedantist who came in earlier. Then there's the Vaishnava Goswami who's the devotee of Krishna. |
| 1:11.6 | And you notice, in each case, Sri Ramakrishna does two things. |
| 1:16.6 | Encourage the person along his or her own line of development, their own tradition. |
| 1:23.6 | But also make certain corrections. For example, he would always push people not to be narrow. |
| 1:31.3 | So, the Vaishnava, he says that the only way is to chant the name of God, |
| 1:41.3 | and for him God is only Krishna. And Sri Ramakrishna does two things there. |
| 1:48.2 | One is, he says, it's not just chanting the name of God. It has to be on a firm ethical foundation. |
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