A continuation of M’s Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
by Swami Nityatmananda
Table of Contents (Volumes 1 to 16)
Volume I
(First edition published in English: Sri Ramakrishna Birthday, 1967)
(Second edition published in English: Thakur’s Birthday, 1972)
- Publisher’s note – Ishwar Devi Gupta (Nag Panchami, 1971)
- Introduction – Nityatmananda (Buddha Purnima, 1953)
- A biographical life sketch of Acharya M. – The author (April 11, 1960)
- M. at Mihijam
- Realisation of God – the aim: Unselfish work – the means
- Material knowledge – a step to the knowledge of Brahman
- The Indian View: everything good to be surrendered to God
- God first, everything else afterwards – ‘Hold on to Me’
- The need of variety in Leela
- Thakur, the embodiment of Truth held, no more fear
- Who is the Hero? – He, who has conquered his senses
- Woman: Image of the Mother
- Great need of Sadachar
- Three mantras of Thakur
- The chatak does not drink any other water
- Personal effort and Grace are one and the same.
- From dualism to Monism
- As long as fuel, so long fire
- The happy festival of Rama-navami and M.
- Speciality of Thakur, What? – Harmony of religions
- All will attain samadhi
- God takes charge of surrendering bhaktas as of a crippled son
- Rising youth, the best time for worshipping God
- Not mercy to jiva but service to Shiva in him
- The poet and the philosopher have the same destination
- Ignorance of God, the greatest sorrow
- Max Muller and Sri Ramakrishna, six shlokas of the Gita
- Sopenhauer and Religion
- Immortality is rare but not impossible
- Supplement: Memorable moments with Sri Mahendranath Gupta – Swami Deshikananda
Volume II
(First edition published in English: January, 1971)
- Publisher’s Note – Ishwar Devi Gupta (Birth-Day of the Holy Mother, 1970)
- Introduction – Swami Nityatmananda (Akshay Tritiya, 1962)
- M. in Calcutta
- The avatara comes to minimise bhakta’s work
- Simple life, aid to spiritual life
- Sri Ramakrishna, the Absolute Brahman as God
- God-realisation, the aim – living like the house-maid, the means
- Thakur’s words, all Veda-mantras
- The `unknown and unknowable’ of Kant – visible to Ramakrishna
- Money makes man half-liberated
- From this very mud blooms forth the lotus
- If He wills, He can reverse everything – the fruit of Karma
- Charity of Jnana, Bhakti, Prema, the best charity
- The basic word – to live in the world in complete surrender
- He speaks through this very mouth
- The means : company and service of sadhus and prayer
- Keshab Sen recognised Thakur
- Which binds also frees, by changing the course
- `Now You Yourself say it to me’ – the jeweller recognises the jewel
- Rama, Rama, Sri Rama, Jai Jai Rama
- Alexander, Napoleon and Christ
- Math, the hospital for the disease of ignorance
- India rising, the world will rise
- See God in one’s own body, family and society
- The devotee – a soldier in the battle-field
- Sri Ramakrishna’s catholic words – the holy formula for world-unity
- Appendix – A glimpse of `M., the Apostle and the Evangelist’ series
Volume III
(First edition published in English: 28th of May, 1977)
- Author’s preface – Swami Nityatmananda (May 15, 1965)
- Jnani, My ownself
- Ramakrishna path, simple and natural
- Swami Vivekananda in the religious life of the world-renowned songstress Mme. Calve
- M.’s organising the spiritual life of Bhaktas
- When will mukti be? – when the ‘I’ is dead
- Story of God-realisation, the History of India
- Time not yet to understand Swamiji
- The greatest message: renouncing all, call on God
- The ideal householder devotee and the ideal sannyasi
- M., without body consciousness
- Durga-puja festival in Belur Math and M. in picnic in Dakshineswar Temple
- Not only see God but also talk to Him
- M. in the Gadadhar Ashrama on the Raspurnima day
- M. with the bhaktas, Sri Ramakrishna & Girish, the Holy Mother & Amjad, Christ & Mary Magdalene
- M. in the Nava-vidhan Brahmo Samaj
- Man’s real nature: I, the son of a King. Satchidananda
- M., absorbed in meditation
Volume IV
(First edition published in English: Janam Dvitiya, 4 March 1984)
- Sri Ma Trust, A brief introduction – Secretary
- The founder’s prayer – Swami Nityatmananda (December 20, 1967)
- The author’s blessings – Swami Nityatmananda (Navarati, 1965)
- The Publisher’s note – Ishwar Devi Gupta
- The author’s preface
- Complete surrender to God – First hint of Godliness
- Hold the calf, the cow will come itself
- Those who have not fallen into hardship are mere babies
- M. at Dakshineswar on Dol-yatra day
- Sri Ramakrishna, the embodiment of the Gita
- Math, the Bengal Club of bhaktas
- ‘I come down from Age to Age’
- Swami Vivekananda in the eyes of the Fox sisters of America
- No sentiency and insentiency in Ramakrishna’s body
- The Kathamrita in pictures
- Tramcar trolley and Sri Ramakrishna
- Brahma-jnana when the mind is exterminated
- Faith brings half-liberation in life
- Samadhi, the normal state of man
- Divine conduct
- No anxiety when the real teacher is found
Volume V
(First edition published in English: The Ganga Dashahara, 29 May 1985 – 92nd birth day of Rev. Swami Nityatmanandaji Maharaj)
- Publisher’s note – Ishwar Devi Gupta
- Introduction by the author (Sri Shankar Jayanti, 1968)
- Different natures, different paths
- Meditate on Me and inherit my wealth
- M. at the Gadadhar Ashrama
- Bound within the five elements Brahman wails
- M.’s genius in the field of education
- Mental renunciation and complete renunciation
- M. with a Parsi devotee in Dakshineswar
- M. with Dr. Hummel of America – I
- M. with Dr. Hummel of America – II
- Message of India to the West
- M., an Upanishadic Rishi – I
- M., an Upanishadic Rishi – II
- Quinine in Banana
- Christ in deep Samadhi
- Upanishad, Gita and Bible
- Weeping yearningly, the panacea in the age of Kali
- M. the honeybee – Church, Gurudwara and Ashrama
- Work, not the end but the means
- Playing with fire
Volume VI
(First edition published in English: 29 September 1990, Sri Durga Puja)
- Publisher’s note – Ishwar Devi Gupta (September 29, 1990)
- The author’s preface (The Birth Anniversary of the Holy Mother, 1968)
- The unperturbed M.
- Mechanical puppets we all are!
- The son will return home
- Pain versus the ideal
- Sri Ramakrishna, the full manifestation of the Avatara
- Dakshineswar, the most sacred place of pilgrimage
- At the feet of Bhavatarini
- ‘Without alloy no gold ornaments can be made’
- ‘Heard with my own ears and seen with my own eyes’
- ‘You have come to eat mangoes, eat them’
- Oh, you are perhaps jewellers!
- Holy Mother – the living proof
- Wound by a sword – scratch by a nail-cutter
- Elephant-pearl in the lion’s den
- M. in the joy of worship
- Brahman reveals himself in the Avatara
- Narendra, a thousand-petalled lotus
- Sri Ramakrishna, personification of the eternal religion
- You have got it all wrong, oh Rama!
- The magician has a solution to all problems
- We have only to hatch eggs
- ‘I was born in the clan of the Buddha’
- A living commentary
Volume VII
(First edition published in English: Sunday, May 30, 1993; Sri Ganga Dussehra, Birth Centenary of Swami Nityatmananda.)
- Publisher’s note – Ishwar Devi Gupta (May 30, 1993)
- The author’s blessings – Swami Nityatmananda (Shardiya Durga Navarati, 1965)
- The founder’s prayer – Swami Nityatmananda (December 20, 1967)
- The author’s preface (given as an appendix in the original) – (Sri Sri Holy Mother’s Birth Anniversary, 1970)
- Holy Mother, the ideal of service and self control
- Jagannath Puri, the meeting place of all religions
- The greatest message of my life
- Well-done! Well-done! Well-done!
- There is no collection-bowl here’
- God and the world peace
- Narendra, knower of Brahman in the service of God-in-the-jiva
- Sri Ramakrishna at the junction (of the world and the Eternal)
- Education in the Math – the real Indian education
- The joy of literature vs. the joy of Brahman – Kalidas and Shakespeare
- Reminiscences of Swami Brahmananda
- Sri Ramakrishna in wonder
- The vedas are confused sounds made by the dumb
- No happiness for me, no sorrow for me
- Adversity wakens the latent strength
- That void was filled on meeting Thakur
- Rasik, the untouchable, is redeemed
- Pilgrimage & tapasya – Rishikesh & Swargashrama
- At the time of repose
- So long one has a body, one is under Mahamaya
- At the re-union of the sadhus on the Vijaya day
- Which holy place could you go to leaving Me behind?
- You are the personification of Thakur’s words
- Company of the sadhus – an oasis in the desert
- Thakur stands at your door with a pot of immortality in his hand
- The heart of the sadhu is stone-hard and flower-soft
- That’s why caution and prayer are needed
Volume VIII
(First edition 1998.)
- Acknowledgement
- Publisher’s Note – The Kathamrita Day, Thursday, 26th of February, 1998
- The author’s blessings – Swami Nityatmananda (Sri Ramakrishna Math, Rishikesh, Himalayas, Shardiya Durga Navarati, 1965)
- [The founder’s prayer – Swami Nityatmananda (December 20, 1967)]
- Introduction
- Circumambulation
- Another forest-feast in the tapovana of Dakshineswar
- One is saved a great deal by keeping company of an all-renouncing sadhu
- A relentless war with mind is needed
- India will again rise with the glory of Self-knowledge
- Sadhu – a living commentary on the shastras
- The avatara doesn’t have jiva’s nature
- This very man will then become a god-man
- Then only ask for peace, peace and perfect peace
- The Gita came into being in the battle-field
- Let us see God in the Avatara; what use running here and there
- M., the Bhagavata Pandit
- Faith in God brings determination in one’s actions
- Compassion binds, service liberates
- The avatara is that Hole
- Bring determination, reverence and serenity in your work
- Sannyasa is nothing but giving God what is His
- Smoke can not pollute the sky
- Blessed is he who imbibes Thakur’s bhava
- The spot of Thakur’s leela, national monument of India
- The Mother can make the hog-plum tree yield mangoes
- Sri Ramakrishna’s meeting with Keshab in Nava-vidhan Brahmo Samaj
- Narendra conquers the world with a fraction of a priest’s grace
- M. in the Gurudwara
- Guru Nanak and Arjun Dev
- Man can tear apart the veil within
- The avatara is the Sun, his intimate disciples its rays
Volume IX
- M. in a glass-house – Author’s Preface
- Thakur’s leela, the hard surrounding shield of maya
- The blessing and the curse
- M. in the Bhadrotsva of the Nava-vidhan Brahmo Samaj
- You will come only here and go nowhere else
- Enjoy yourself, you the child of the all Blissful Mother
- Reading Kathamrita is the best company of sadhus
- Unshakable faith who has, last birth he has
- Eternal festival – Birth anniversary of the world
- It is of the Bombay-mango class
- God within, priest without
- Have the strength of ten thousand elephants in your mind before you enter the household life
- Because of fear, it was all in vain
- O,O, you are a devotee of Gadai
- The Kathamrita, an unparalleled scripture in world history
- You will have to narrate Bhagavata
- M. in the Gaudia Math for the first time
- Everybody is suffering from the delirium
- M. in the Jain temple and again in the Gaudia Math
- M. in the Math, Temple and Khaddar exhibition
- World peace by joining Science with Philosophy
- Giving to the sevakas is giving to God
- The son will return home
Volume X
(1st edition published in English June 11, 2000)
- Acknowledgement
- Publisher’s Note
- Author’s blessings
- Prayer
- Like rice in the husk – Author’s Preface
- A `ghati’ (jugful) of crying, crying like a child
- Fire of the world and shower of peace, both are here
- Every saying is like a lamp
- By reciting it goes to the mind
- Again the forest-feast and the festival of Durga
- Kashi, the storehouse of jnana and bhakti
- By realising God, one attains the highest culture
- Which is the higher culture, just learning or self-knowledge?
- M., absorbed in the rasa of Raas
- Today, a successful day
- There is something beyond reason too
- The seven steps to destruction
- M. in the Lily Cottage
- He who sees only the eye of the fish, hits the target
- Keshab, the steady bearer of Thakur’s bhava
- At the Kalpa-taru place of pilgrimage
- The Madhavi Peeth – Sri Ramakrishna and Totapuri
- In the ‘meeting’ temple
- The knowledge of Shiva in the jiva brings world peace
- Thakur’s one instruction : Do something
- The path of bhakti also brings Brahman-jnana
Volume XI
- Sadhu, the link to God
- Kamarpukur, all illumined
- Swamiji broke India’s sleep of attachment
- Thakur, the illustration of the one liberated in this very life and in this very body
- M. in the Budhha Vihara, Church and Brahmo Samaj
- I say, have I fallen too low?
- Religion means faith
- Lack of feeling of doership means the Mother’s presence
- M. and Rajarishi Manindra Nandi in Budhha Vihara
- A diamond in the hands of brinjal-seller
- Begging alms and the Brahmachari
- M., the best doctor
- Living Holy Mother in the Math today – M. and MacLeod
- Superhuman if one sees Him
- Raghu in search of Bliss
- Like the moon floating on water
- Babu himself has come today
Volume XII
- `Hold Me’ – Ramakrishna
- Christ was born in a stable – Sri Ramakrishna in a husking shed
- The idol of Kali – a symbol of creation, preservation and dissolution
- Man is like a flute
- Sadhu pilgrims at Gangasagar
- People are mad after the world, the avatara after God
- The avatara’s interpretation of scriptures is correct
- Premananda in the eyes of Saradananda
- Man is hundred percent human
- M., the modern teacher
- Vipin Pal, the revolutionary in Nava-vidhan Brahmo Samaj
- Attain peace before you dispense it
- In search of intimate disciples – M., the agent
- Vivekananda is the foremost ambassador of spiritual awakening in America – Gilki
- Nitai, the sannyasi, becomes a householder on a divine mission
Volume XIII
- The Collection
- Equality inside, distinctin outside
- Priest or God, this is the riddle
- You will have to do a little of Mother’s work
- Chitranjan, the Rajarishi bhakta
- It is all quite when the curtain goes up – the bhakta from Mandley
- The loss of powers of mind can be made up by complete renunciation
- Everybody will partake of the feast, sooner or later
- In search of repose
- Thakur, the personification of Indian culture
- Gandhiji and Chitranjan – each one is His spark
- M. and Sri Mahapurusha
- M. and Surendranath Banerji – wisdom vs. loss of discrimination
- Birth anniversary of Naga Mahashay and Dr. Moreno
- Whether you remain in family or leave it – the goal remains God-realisation
- Dr. Radhakrishnan, Puri dham and Sri Ramakrishna
- Two classes of devotees, one like the fly and other like the bee
- A forest-feast in the Panchavati
- The bhakta wil have two eyes on his back too
Volume XIV
- One goes as a man and returns as a god
- Aaharan*
- Kali Tapasvi, the lecturer in Vedanta
- Jagannath on the one hand, Baidyanath on the other
- Be an ant and take only sugar
- Puri, the leela spot of Chaitanya Deva
- At the call of Jagannath
- The birth anniversary of Christ in Srikshetra (Puri)
- In the Church and the Siddhashrama
- In the pursuit of divinty : Christ and Ramakrishna
- They will be redeemed when the knowledge of the Absolute goes in the west
- Brahmin Haridas under the Bakul Tree
- On the way to Bhubaneswar
- In the Lingraj temple
- The Return
- Rajvesh (the robing ceremony) of Lord Jagannath
- Circumambulation
- Puri filled with Chaitanya
- Religious life – struggle between faith and disbelief
- These divine scenes are the food for the mind
- Reading from the diary, churn out the butter and live with butter milk
Appendix
* events not in chronological order with the rest of the book
Volume XV
- M., the model of sannyasa in household – Author’s Preface…. read.
- All men have their faults and qualities – even so reverence is due to sadhus…read
- Death flees when one shouts for help to the Lord…read
- Living Thakur is living Truth…read
- A collection of images…read
- Sannyasa – the sight for gods to see…read
- A child is hundred percent child…read
- A chain of pearls – all these words...read
- Company of sadhus, company of sadhus, company of sadhus…..read
- About Mahapurursh….read
- The image of Shiva….read
- Sri Mahapurursha, the liberated one in this very life….read
- The glory of Puri…read
- M. in sick bed
- M. filled with Ramakrishna
- Thakur came to make heroes
- The picture of Mahapurusha Maharaj
- The series of pictures
- The last reading of the Kathamrita
- The lotus grove
- The test
- On the way to final journey
- New centres of pilgrimage
- Appendix I – Sri Sri M.’s Mahasamadhi
- Appendix II – Events immediately before M.’s Mahasamadhi
Volume XVI
- A life sketch of Swami Nityatmananda
- M. determined to transform jiva into Shiva
- First decide upon your duty
- Janama Dvitiya, M. in the Belur Math
- By doing something, one has no regrets
- M., the ascetic, in Rishikesh Himalayas
- About Vidyapeeth
- Faith, firm or stable
- First work and penance, then work becomes penance
- The first Vidyapeeth in Mihijam
- M. and the sadhus of Belur Math
- Thakur came only to make heroes
- Gandhiji and Karma yoga
- Shodasi Puja
- Song corresponds to the mood
- The scriptures should be heard from the lips of the guru
- To receive His blessings is the most rare thing on the earth
- Some letters of M.