Gospel | Chapter 9: Apr 15, 1883 | Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Society of New York
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🗓️ 9 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 | Ome, Tavokatham, Ritham, Tapti-Jivanam, Kaviviritam, Kalma-Shavaam, Shravanam, |
| 0:12.0 | Srema Dāhryma Dāttatam Bhuvrinanthi Burydhajanah. So in this class we read the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna which is the English translation |
| 0:34.6 | of the Bengali original Sri Sari-Shi-Rama Ramakrishna Kathamrida, which is the |
| 0:40.5 | dialogues, the teachings of Sri Ramakrishna, which were recorded in his diary by Mahindranad |
| 0:48.6 | Gupta. |
| 0:49.6 | The school teacher, very close devotee of Sri Ramakrishna, and later published in the form of this book. |
| 0:57.0 | And this English translation was done here in New York in the 1940s, early 40s, by Swami Nikilaananda. |
| 1:08.0 | All right, so today we're going to read Sunday April 15th 1883. |
| 1:15.6 | 15th April 1883 and in my book the page is 210. |
| 1:21.6 | 210 if anybody's got this edition. |
| 1:26.6 | So Sunday is often you'll find and if anybody's got this edition. |
| 1:34.3 | So Sundays, often you'll find these dates are Sundays or Saturdays. Because these are the days on which the devotees, you know, so they were working on other days. |
| 1:39.3 | It's the weekends they could go to the Kali temple in Daksin Asher |
| 1:43.3 | and meet with Sririramakrishna |
| 1:46.0 | and Mahandranad Gupta also. He would go mostly on weekends. |
| 1:50.0 | And so most of these things were recorded on weekends. |
| 1:54.0 | This particular thing was not in the Kali temple in Daksin Ashwar. |
| 2:00.0 | It was in the house of a devotee. |
| 2:02.6 | So some of these dialogues, some of these, you know, |
| 2:07.6 | encounters that took place in the houses of various devotees, who invited Sri Ramakrishna, |
| 2:12.6 | often on religious festivals occasions. |
| 2:15.6 | So this is in the house of devotee Shurendra. |
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