Swami Vivekananda
The gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
Master's love for Narendra — Master's samadhi — Hazra's eccentricities — Goal of scriptural study — Occult powers — Go beyond duality — Advice to Surendra — Duties of householders — Master praises charity — Master and Girish — Selfless divine love — Knowledge of Brahman — Two paths of Brahmajnan
The gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
Assimilation of spiritual ideas — Master sees a performance — Signs of God-vision — Different moods of liberated souls — The ego of the devotee — Three classes of devotees — Restlessness for God-vision — Worldly man's spiritual discipline — Master and Girish — Master and book-learning — First Go
The gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
Adhar — Meaning of Radha and Krishna — Purusha and Prakriti imply each other — Their inner harmony — Master and preaching — Preaching without God's command — Life after death — Duties of life — Master scolds Bankim — Devotees and tlie worldly-minded — Charity — The sannyasi's duty — The househol
The gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
God in all beings — Master and Hriday — Bhava and mahabhava — Discipline for God-vision — Futility of mere study — Yearning for God — Work hard for His realization — Favourable conditions for realization of God — See God in the world — Story of "the will of Rama" — Master's first meeting with Ke
The gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
Occult powers — Four classes of devotees —Difference between intellectual understanding and actual vision — Advice to Brahmos — Need of firmness and conviction — Faith of the worldly-minded — Seek the Creator and not the world's beauty — Futility of mere study — Different degrees of divine manif
The gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
The worldly Jadu Mallick — Warning devotees about women — How to conquer passion — Disciplines during the sadhana period — Planes of mind — On meditation — Tendencies from previous births — Dayananda — Theosophy — Preparation for God-vision — Purusha and Prakriti — Knowledge and ignorance — Holl
The gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
Inscrutability of God's ways — Two \vavs of yoga — Efficacy of bhakti-yoga — Householder's duty — Complete renunciation for religious teachers — Hard rules for a sannyasi — About Keshab and Vijay — Praise of guilelessness and purity — Master's guilelessness — Nature of Brahman — What happens aft
The gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
Master's catholicity — Different paths for different temperaments — Dogmatism condemned — Encouragement to Vijay — How to deal with wicked people — Advice to householders — Difference between ordinary men and Incarnations — Nature of the ever-perfect — Illustration of homa bird — Discrimination
The gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
Master praises Captain's devotion — The spell of Divine Sakti — Nature of gopis' love for Krishna — Unfulfilled desires make one deviate from yoga — About Rakhal — Balaram's devotion — Narendra's first visit — Master warns the devotees about women — Master's attraction for people — His own remin
The gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
Signs of a perfect soul — Description of the Bauls — Different paths leading to God — Devotion to one's own path and respect for others' — The tides in the Ganges — Master in ecstasy — Advice to Adhar about renunciation — Signs of a real devotee — Master's genuine love for his disciples — God ta
The gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
Yoga and the six centres — The state of samadhi — Keeping individuality after samadhi — Two classes of paramahamsas — Paramahamsas as teachers of men — Master sings of divine joy — Renunciation, true and false — Prema, the rarest love of God — How to attain pure love of God — Degrees of knowledg
The gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
Nature of Brahman — Glories of Kali — Mere study of scriptures is futile — Reading, hearing, and seeing — The nature of jnanis and vijnanis — Both Nitya and Lila easily accessible to the vijnani — All-embracing realization of the vijnani — Three states of God-Consciousness — Samadhi described —