Gospel | Chapter 6: Oct 28, 1882 (Part 7) | Swami Sarvapriyananda
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The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna | Swami Sarvapriyananda
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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Om tava kathāmṛtaṁ tapta-jīvanaṁ kavih vere taṁ kalmṣāpaham śravaṇa-maṅgaṁ śrīmad ātataṁ bhuvi gṛṇanti bhūri-dā janāḥ. I am reading in this edition it is page 152 and the date is twenty-eighth October eighteen eighty-two, "The Master with the Brahma Devotees." It's a long conversation. The long conversation there was about knowledge and devotion, God with form, God without form. And now we are on page one hundred fifty-two. It's towards the end of this conversation. Sri Ramakrishna has made some very wonderful, uh, observations, given us insights into spiritual life. Again, one more thing. The middle of page one fifty-two. To Shivanath and other Brahma devotees, "Can you tell me why you dwell so much on the powers and glories of God?" I asked the same thing of Keshab Sen. One day Keshab and his party came to the temple garden at Dakshineswar. I told them I want to hear how they lectured. A meeting was arranged in the paved courtyard above the bathing ghat on the Ganges, where Keshab gave a talk. He spoke