Ome Stapakai, Jardmas, and Svhraubhne, Avatar, our Rishhthaya, Ramakrishna, yadena.

Good morning and namaste everybody.

Good to see you are turned up in such large numbers.

Celebrate the birthday of Sri Ramakrishna.

Though it is not the birthday of Sri Ram Krishna today.

We've done it for convenience.

It's actually on Tuesday.

But nevertheless, it turned out very well because it is a very auspicious day.

It is Shiva Rathri. Last night we celebrated Shiva Rathri.

Bill was just saying to me, for me, worshipping Shiva and worshipping Sriama Krishna, the same thing.

I see that Shiva himself is Sri Ramakrishna.

So today I'm going to speak about, the subject says,

the life and teachings of Sri Ramakrishna.

It is sort of generic we put it there. I'm not going to speak about the life and teachings of Sri Ramakrishna, that is sort of generic we put it there.

I'm not going to speak about the life and teachings of Sri Ramakrishna.

No, indeed, we are actually going to go deeper than that, deeper than the life and teachings of Sri Ramakrishna,

into who or what is Sri Ramakrishna.

That's what we're going to talk about today.

As Americans would say, get ready for a wild ride.

One reason is that the material I'm going to draw upon is from an extraordinary book written by an extraordinary

spiritual seeker, a veritable saint.

Swami Bhajananandhi, he is a vice president of the Ramakrishna order now in Belur Mutt.

...