Gospel | Chapters 4,5: Oct 24, 1882 & Oct 27, 1882 (Part 1) | Swami Sarvapriyananda
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🗓️ 8 December 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 | So, |
| 0:04.0 | So, |
| 0:06.0 | Thawakathamritam taptiivan |
| 0:08.0 | Kavi-viridam Kalma-shaapha |
| 0:11.0 | Shavanam-Mhalam Shrema-Datatam |
| 0:14.0 | Bhuvigrinanti |
| 0:16.0 | Bhuridhah |
| 0:17.0 | Jhanah. |
| 0:19.0 | So this is our weekly class on Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita, which is translated into the English as the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. |
| 0:33.1 | And we were on 24th October 1882. |
| 0:41.0 | It's a Tuesday, 24th October 1882. |
| 0:43.4 | We're going to start that. |
| 0:44.7 | In my book, it's page 130. |
| 0:47.9 | Page 130. |
| 0:50.2 | It was 3 or 4 o'clock in the afternoon. |
| 0:53.6 | The master was standing near the shelf'clock in the afternoon. |
| 1:02.9 | The master was standing near the shelf where the food was kept when Baleram and M arrived from Calcutta and saluted him. |
| 1:07.7 | So this is in Dakshinaeshwar and this is in Sri Ramakrishna's room in Daksineshwar. |
| 1:13.3 | Sri Ramakrishna said to them with a smile, I was going to take some sweets from the shelf, but no sooner did I put my hand on them than a lizard dropped on my |
| 1:19.3 | body. There's a footnote. The dropping of a lizard on the body is considered an omen, a bad omen. |
| 1:30.1 | At once I removed my hand. |
| 1:39.7 | All laugh. Oh yes, one should observe all these things. You see, Rakhal is ill and my limbs ache too. |
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