Oom Tavakathamritam, Tapti-jivanam, Kaviviritam, Kalma shavanam, Shravana Mhanghalam Shrema-Datatam Bhuvigrinanthi,

Bharidhāhā.

So in this class we read the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, which is an English translation of the Sri

Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita, a record of the conversations, teachings of Sri Ramakrishna.

The recording was made by, recording, I mean handwritten notes, was made by M.

Mahindranad Gupta, who was a school teacher, one of the closest

disciples of Sri Ramakrishna. So we are on, we're going to start this section dated.

Dated Thursday, 29th March 1883 in my addition it's on page

194 page 194 page 194 29th March 1883 we have just come out of a long section

in which we saw the celebration of

Sri Ramakrishna's birthday and a lot of profound discussions on spiritual life and philosophy

and so on. Here's another beautiful section. So I'll read as usual, I'll read for a while

and then comment upon it and I'll

invite you all to whenever you feel like. Just pitch in, raise your hand. You want to make an

observation or ask a question. The master had taken a little rest after his noon meal when a few devotees arrived from Calcutta,

among them Amrita, and the well-known singer of the Brahmasamaj, Treylock.

I can't resist this, not at all relevant, but still. Amrita, the way you write it in English, you can pronounce it as Amrita also, but that becomes a woman's name.

Amrito is a Bengali name for a man.

Now, it's not easy for a non-Bengali to make out the difference or a non-Indian to make out the difference so easily.

A few years back, the Emerson Hall at Harvard University,

Emerson Hall is where the philosophy department is at Harvard University.

I was just visiting, and my first time in there,

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