Ome Tava Khatha-Mritam Taptajivanam, Kaviviritham, Kalma-Shaphaam, Shravanam Shre Mhāhmadatathehryanan bivryanthi bharitana.

The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, which is the English translation of Sri Ramakrishna Katham Rita.

I'll read and at any time, if you have a comment, a question, observation, just raise your hand and jump right in.

Page 184 in my book, the date is 9th March 1883 9th March 1883 it was a

Friday so as usual I'll read for a while and then I'll start commenting on what we have read and you jump in.

Friday 9th March 1883. About 9 o'clock in the morning the master was seated in his room with Rakhal M and a few other devotees. It was the day of the new moon.

As usual with him on such days, Sri Ramakrishna entered again and again into communion with the divine mother.

That means into ecstasy actually. He said to the devotees, God alone exists and all else is unreal.

The divine mother has kept all deluded by her Maya.

Look at men. Most of them are entangled in worldliness.

They suffer so much, but still they have the same attachment to lust and gold.

The camel eats thorny shrubs and blood gushes from its mouth.

Still, it will eat thorns.

While suffering pain at the time of delivery,

a woman says, ah, I shall never go to my husband again.

But afterwards she forgets.

The truth is, no one seeks God.

There are people who eat the prickly leaves of the pineapple and not the fruit.

Devotee.

Sir, why has God put us in the world master the world is the field of action through action one acquires knowledge the guru instructs the disciple to perform

certain works and refrain from others again he advises the pupil to perform action without desiring the result.

The impurity of the mind is destroyed through the performance of duty.

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