Conversations
Gospel
Conversations recorded by her disciples in Calcutta, Jayrambati and Banaras — her words exactly as they were spoken to those who came to her.
113 conversations
I
Preface
II
Diary of conversations
Udbodhan Office, Calcutta
- 2Opening entry
- 3Seeing good even in evil
- 4On the education and marriage of girls
- 5Utility of work
- 6Reminiscences of Sri Ramakrishna
- 7Women must have forbearance
- 8On Image Workship
- 9Education of women
- 10Some spiritual Instructions
- 11Sattva quality leads to renunciation
- 12Devotees are above caste rules
- 13How to serve the divine image in shrine
- 14How Sri-Rama Krishna sang
- 15Married People and Spiritual Life
- 16Reverence for the guru
- 17Give every man his due
- 18Reminiscences of Sri Ramakrishna
- 19God-realization and Divine grace
- 20The meaning of misery
- 21Confession and absolution from sin
- 22On Swami Premenanda
- 23A great soul and an ordinary man contrasted
- 24Reminiscences of Swami Premenanda and Sri Ramakrishna
- 25The monastic disciples of Sri Ramakrishna
- 26The woes of spiritual ministry
- 27All worldy things are illusory. Be free from their bondage
- 28Musk deer and the immanence of God
- 29Spiritual practice and realization of God
- 30Reminiscences of Sri Ramakrishna
- 31The Monastic Ideal
- 32Need of self-restraint in household life
- 33Control of mind and God-realization
- 34Reminiscences of Sri Ramakrishna
- 35Her kindness to the poor
- 36On spiritual practices and experiences
III
Diary of conversations
Jayarambati
IV
Diary of conversations
Udbodhan Office, Calcutta
- 40Opening entry
- 41Renunciation and God-realization
- 42Reasoning and God-realization
- 43Charity
- 44Ecstatic love and God-realization
- 45Blinding God
- 46Desires and birth
- 47Vanity and monastic life
- 48God-realisation and Divine Grace
- 49On doing Japa with fingers
- 50God and the problem of suffering
- 51The mystery of Karma and Divine will
- 52Spiritual practice can remove sins
- 53Life after death
- 54The state of non-duality
- 55Sri Ramakrishna worshipping his own picture
- 56Reminiscences of Sri Ramakrishna
- 57Master’s presence
- 58The Deity partakes of offerings
- 59Divine grace : God is one’s own
- 60How does one get love of God?
V
Diary of conversations
Jayrambati
- 61Opening entry
- 62On Nirvana and other states of salvation
- 63Isvarakotis can come back from Nirvana
- 64Speeding up of spiritual evolution
- 65Great souls and redemption of sinners
- 66Meaning of God-realization
- 67God has the nature of a child
- 68The Master’s renunciation
- 69A true Guru initiates only out of compassion
- 70No, I do so out of compassion.
- 71Yearning of God
- 72Sri Ramakrishna’s renunciation
- 73Spiritual Realization depends on Divine will
- 74The Master’s suffering: its meaning
- 75Place of work in spiritual life : justification of the activities of the Ramakrishna Order
- 76Non-attachment is true absense of desire
- 77Desires—real and apparent
- 78The aspirant has the protection of the Divine
- 79Karma are inevitable, but spiritual practices can mitigate them
- 80Purity depends on the mind
VI
Diary of conversations
Banaras
VII
Diary of conversations
Jayrambati
- 87Opening entry
- 88Spiritual progress is gradual
- 89Are Sudras and women entitled to sannyasa?
- 90On Compassion
- 91The Master in relation to one’s Ishta Devata
- 92Look at the Master’s picture if you cannot concentrate
- 93How far should one observe rules of purity regarding food?
- 94Obsession regarding purity of mind is the sign of an impure mind
- 95Self-surrender and spiritual discipline
- 96God, the only solace in life
- 97A Sannnyasin’s duty
- 98Pray to the lord
- 99A devotee in a fit of pique with God
- 100Grace of God compared to sun’s rays
- 101Why man does not see God?
- 102Japa of a pure-minded devotee
- 103Youth is the proper time for spiritual practices
- 104Japa steadies the mind and directs it to God
VIII
Her counsel gathered under subjects