3865371The Gospel of Râmakrishna — IndexSwami AbhedanandaRamakrishna Paramahamsa

INDEX

MARGINAL HEADINGS

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About the Absolute nothing can be told 254

Absolute Brahman and Divine Mother 342

Absolute frankness 217

A child's "I" 57

A devotee is rich in spirit 185

Agnosticism in Europe and America 250

Ajnanam and Jnanam 119

All desires fulfilled 208

All phenomena unreal 113

All religions lead to God 25

All rituals end in Samadhi 265

All sects of one family 345

Animal food and Vegetarianism 398

A spiritual leader must renounce the world 258

A true devotee always calm 42

A true Sannyasin 414

Attachment to the body 336

Attachment to work 238

Attainment of God-vision 242

Attainment of knowledge gradual 308

Avadhuta and a bee 67

Avadhuta and a kite 66

Avatara 292, 409

Avataras and ordinary Jivas 292


Abesha of Ramakrishna 261 INDEX

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Badge of authority 269

Become one with all 345

Bhakta's attitude 147

Bhakti and Jnana 201

Bhakti Yoga 272

Bigotry is not right 27

Bliss comes in meditation 190

Body and Atman 219

Body result of past actions 186

Book knowledge and realization 82

Book learning 116

Book-learned Pandits like vultures 104

Bound souls 45

Brahman and Sakti are one 132

Brahman impersonal and personal 132

Brahman indescribable 106

Brahman is Silence 109

Brahman untouched by good and evil 105


Calculating intellect 394

Cast all care on God 314

Character and associations 198

Company of the wicked 42

Compassion and attachment 252

Concentration 275

Concentration and meditation 48

Creation of the world 153

Cure of His illness 419


Danger of psychic powers 320

Days of struggle 207

Degrees of knowledge 303

Delusive power of Maya 157, 259 INDEX

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Desire for powers prevents realization 322

Devotee's heart the temple of the Lord 145

Devotion to the Supreme 200

Difference between Soul and God 55

Difference in powers 327

Different aspects of Divinity 30

Different aspects of God 148

Different paths to God 270

Difficult to be rid of "I" 56

Discrimination and renunciation 299

Discrimination of an Advaitin 146

Dispassion 49

Disputations prevent realization of God 375

Distaste for worldly conversation 215

Divine commission 169

Divine communion 296

Divine Incarnation 351

Divine intoxication 230

Divine love and ecstasy 74

Divine love and its various aspects 202

Divine Mother in all women 335

Divine Mother omnipresent 154

Divine Mother the material and the instrumental cause 154

Divine Mother's will 156

Divinity everywhere 210

Doing good to the world 137

Dual existence 398

Dualistic and monistic Vedanta 278


Ecstasy 80

Ecstatic love 301

Ego of knowledge 294

Egoism of a saint 110 INDEX

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Egotism 392

Egotism and knowledge 340, 392

Egotism rises from ignorance 235

Effect of lectures on worldly men 264

Evening at the Temple 32, 195

Everything depends on God's will 92

Everything the will of God 223

Example of Janaka 161


Faith and realization 323

Fetters of the soul 73

Fickleness of the mind 414

Fire of Bhakti destroys sins 296

Firmness of faith necessary for realization 325

First cleanse the heart 175

First see God, then help the world 170

Fit vessels 286

Food for a Bhakta 231

Four classes of individual souls 44

Four stages of realization 322


God and the Scriptures 326

God dwells in all 37

God, His devotee and His word one 259

God in everything 39

God is formless and with form 62

God is Infinite 312

God is like a magnet 59

God manifest 367

God Personal and Impersonal 28

God provides for those who have realized Him 334

God realized by purified soul 368

God the Absolute and God the Creator one 191 INDEX

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God the one Master 167

God, the sea of Immortality 249

God, the Sun of wisdom 60

God-vision and philanthropic works 171

God-vision the end of all performance of duty 172

Good works and compassion for all 103

Grace of God 286, 313, 327


Hatha Yoga 274

He uplifted womanhood 17

Helping others 295

His Divine powers 20

His love for humanity 420

His mission IO, 18

His oneness with all 421

His Renunciation 16

His Samadhi 15

His spiritual insight 13

Householder's duties 333

How a householder should live in the world 77

How to fix one's mind on God 65

How to love God 72

How to pray 303

How to recognize a saint 78

Human soul the child of God 204

Humility of Ramakrishna 139


Ideal of a wet-nurse 250

Illustration of a bull's-eye lantern 61

Image worship 63

Intellectual apprehension and realization 373

Intense devotion necessary 164

Is work the aim of life? 240 INDEX

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Jnana and Vijnana 281

Jnana Yoga 270

Jnana Yoga and Bhakti Yoga 113


Karma (past actions) 309

Karma Yoga 271

Kali, why black ? 154

Keshab and his disciples 257

Knowledge is relative 389

Kumbhaka 275


Law of Karma 183

Lay cares on God 395

Lectures and sermons of preachers 245

Life of Sri Ramakrishna by European Scholars 2

Longing to hear about the Supreme 216

Love for all 42

Love of God, the one thing needful 313

Lover of God 191

Lust and gold unreal 70


Madness of Divine love 74

Mahendra's visit to the Temple 22

Many names of one God 26

Maya 114

Maya and Daya 182

Meaning of His illness 418

Meaning of Keshab's illness 221

Meaning of Om 96

Means of God-vision 71

Meditation 276

Money is power 52 INDEX

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Need of solitude 69

Non-attachment 112

Non-attachment necessary 85

Non-dualistic Vedantins 180


One God has many names 151

Ordinary spiritual teachers are blind 169


Parable of a Brahmin Priest and his boy 125

" " " man seeking a light 283

" " " salt doll 109

" " " woodcutter 243

" " " woodcutter and his dream 280

" " the ant and the mount of sugar 107

" " " bird on the mast 282

" " " chameleon 29

" " " deserted temple 174

" " " disciple and the mad elephant 38

" " " elephant and the blind men 28

" " false Sadhu. 205

" " " farmer and his only child 93

" " " farmer and the canal 49

" " " father and his dying son 84

" " " four travelers 255

" " " monk and the Zemindar 88

" " " pious weaver 90

" " " rich man and his Sircar 120

" " " snake and the holy man 40

" " " three robbers 253

" " " tiger 203

" " " Vedic father and his two sons 106

Path of Bhakti Yoga best for this age 172

Path of devotion 240 INDEX

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Perfect knowledge brings realization of oneness 220

Pilgrimages 284

Pilgrimage useless 407

Power of desire 314

Power of repentance 59

Power of the Lord's Holy Name 23

Power of the mind 158

Power of true faith and true longing 72

Powhari Baba of Gazipur 145

Practice of non-attachment 68

Pray that worldly work may grow less 170

Prayer for Bhakti 397

Prayer of a true Bhakta 392

Prayer to the Divine Mother 161, 360

Pride 75

Pride and egotism 338

Psychic powers 320

Pure Bhakti and pure Jnana one 194

Pure heart 59

Purpose of His illness 422


Qualified non-dualism 370


Raja Yoga 271

Raja Yogi 148

Rama 409

Ramakrishna a Real Mahatman 4

Ramakrishna as the Divine Ideal of all sects 9

Ramakrishna goes on board the steamer 143

Ramakrishna leaves Vidyasagara 141

Ramakrishna's childlike nature 100

Ramakrishna' s ecstasy 143, 226, 363

Ramkrishna's influence upon the mind of Scholars 7 INDEX

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Ramakrishna's love of humor 102

Ramakrishna's Samadhi 131

Realization 389

Realization of God 14

Relation between Brahman and Sakti 150

Relation between God Personal and Impersonal 31

Relation between Guru and disciples 111

Renunciation 316

Renunciation and worldly men 331

Renunciation not necessary for all 158

Resign all to God 332

Resignation 89

Resistance of evil 40

Right discrimination 79


Sages teach for the good of others 111

Sages who have reached the seventh plane 291

Samadhi of Ramakrishna 189

Sankara and the pariah 305

Sattwa, Rajas, and Tamas 252

Saving power of God's name 160

Saviours 1

Scriptures and realization 355

Sectarianism and Brahma-Jnana 256

Seek God in man 352

Selfless works purify the heart 136

Self -surrender and prayer 123

Sense of "I" 51, 118

Sense of sin 159

Servant "I" of a Bhakta 56

Seven mental planes 290

Seven stages of spiritual evolution 53

Signs of one who has realized God 23 INDEX

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Signs of true wisdom 335

Solitude a remedy for worldliness 163

Solitude necessary 65

Souls eternally free 293

Spiritual awakening necessary to see the Reality 372

Spiritual knowledge and the worldly 304

Spiritual practices 306

Stages of spirituality 300

Stages of spiritual practice 307

State of God-vision 317

Story of a boy and the cow-house 245

Story of a man and his cottage 246

Subtle body 395

Sudden conversion 324


Taught His disciples renunciation 417

The Absolute and the Divine Mother 259

The Absolute and the phenomenal 95

The Absolute Brahman 390

The Divinely -commissioned teacher 266

The Divine Mother will cure worldly attachment 337

The Divine presence in images 183

The ego of a calf 236

The importance of practice 396

The innermost feelings of a true Bhakta 147

The kingdom of God is everywhere 87

The Lord alone is thine own 121

The Lord smiles on two occasions 120

The Lord, the Ocean of Immortality 135

The Lord untouched by good and evil 393

The madness of love for the Lord 227

The mercy of the Lord 60

The Mother of the universe and Her sports 152 INDEX

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The nature of disciples must be examined 167

The necessity of practice 266

The omnipotence of faith 125

Theosophy 399

The power of the Divine Mother 133, 155

The realm of the Divine Energy 150

The Siddha and the elephant 321

The signs of a true Jnani 280

The unripe and ripe "I" 256

The world as a dream 149

The world like a dream 93

The worldly "I" 55

The world unreal 76

The worthy will become perfect 415

Thought of freedom brings freedom 181

Three classes of characters 339

Three classes of religious teachers 285

Three Gunas of nature 254

Three obstacles in the way of perfection 388

Three states of consciousness in ecstasy 302

Time necessary for religious awakening 299

To live in the world or to renounce it 413

Trials of a devotee 184

True devotion and love 58

True knowledge and ignorance 389

True meaning of Gita 116

Truthfulness 232

Two classes of Paramahamsas 294


Unity and variety 221

Unity in diversity 115


Value of lectures without Divine commission 268 INDEX

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Value of solitude 162

Vanity 393

Various aspects of the Brahman 146

Vidya and Avidya 104

Vijnani and Bhakta 114

Vishnu as a boar 260

Vision of the Divine Mother and the Absolute 343

Visit to a poor Brahmin 211

Visit to Devendra Nath Tagore 212

Visit to Keshab Sen 219

Visit to Padmalochana 214

Vyasa and the Gopis 306


What happens after death 278

What is Bhakti? 132

What thou thinkest, thou shalt become 47

When God is attained worldly attachment vanishes 97

Where Ramakrishna lived 21

Who is a true spiritual teacher? 168

Why God cannot be seen 258

Work and grace 83

Work necessary for God-vision 80

Work without devotion 249

Work with the mind fixed on God 399

Worldly attachment and realization 300

Worship God in solitude 328

Worship of the spiritual preceptor 402


Zoological Garden, Visit to 209