{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/gork/gork18.htm","path":"hin/gork/gork18.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/gork/gork18.htm","text":"The Gospel of Ramakrishna, ed. by Swami Abhedananda, [1907]\nAbout the Absolute nothing can be told 254\nAbsolute Brahman and Divine Mother 342\nAbsolute frankness 217\nA child's \"I\" 57\nA devotee is rich in spirit. 185\nAgnosticism in Europe and America 250\nAjn\u00e2nam and Jn\u00e2nam 119\nAll desires fulfilled 208\nAll phenomena unreal 113\nAll religions lead to God 25\nAll rituals end in Sam\u00e2dhi 265\nAll sects of one family 345\nAnimal food and Vegetarianism 398\nA spiritual leader must renounce the world 258\nA true devotee always calm 42\nA true Sanny\u00e2sin 414\nAttachment to the body 336\nAttachment to work 238\nAttainment of God-vision 242\nAttainment of knowledge gradual 308\nAvadhuta and a bee 67\nAvadhuta and a kite 66\nAvat\u00e2ras and ordinary Jivas 292\nBadge of authority 269\nBecome one with all 345\nBhakta's attitude 147\nBhakti and Jn\u00e2na 201\nBhakti Yoga 272\nBigotry is not right 27\nBliss comes in meditation. 190\nBody and \u00c2tman 219\nBody result of past actions 186\nBook knowledge and realization 82\nBook learning 116\nBook-learned Pandits like vultures 104\nBound souls 45\nBrahman and Sakti are one 132\nBrahman impersonal and personal 132\nBrahman indescribable 106\nBrahman is Silence 109\nBrahman untouched by good and evil 105\nCalculating intellect 394\nCast all care on God 314\nCharacter and associations 198\nCompany of the wicked 42\nCompassion and attachment 252\nConcentration 275\nConcentration and meditation 48\nCreation of the world 153\nCure of His illness 419\nDanger of psychic powers 320\nDays of struggle 207\nDegrees of knowledge 303\nDelusive power of M\u00e2y\u00e2 157, 259\nDesire for powers prevents realization 322\nDevotee's heart the temple of the Lord 145\nDevotion to the Supreme 200\nDifference between Soul and God 55\nDifference in powers 327\nDifferent aspects of Divinity. 30\nDifferent aspects of God 148\nDifferent paths to God 270\nDifficult to be rid of \"I\" 56\nDiscrimination and renunciation 299\nDiscrimination of an Advaitin 146\nDispassion 49\nDisputations prevent realization of God 375\nDistaste for worldly conversation 215\nDivine commission 169\nDivine communion 296\nDivine Incarnation 351\nDivine intoxication 230\nDivine love and ecstasy 74\nDivine love and its various aspects 202\nDivine Mother in all women 335\nDivine Mother omnipresent 154\nDivine Mother the material and the instrumental cause 154\nDivine Mother's will 156\nDivinity everywhere 210\nDoing good to the world 137\nDual existence 398\nDualistic and monistic Ved\u00e2nta 278\nEcstasy 80\nEcstatic love 301\nEgo of knowledge 294\nEgoism of a saint 110\nEgotism 392\nEgotism and knowledge 340, 392\nEgotism rises from ignorance 235\nEffect of lectures on worldly men 264\nEverything depends on God's will 92\nEverything the will of God 223\nExample of Janaka 161\nFaith and realization 323\nFetters of the soul 73\nFickleness of the mind 414\nFire of Bhakti destroys sins 296\nFirmness of faith necessary for realization 325\nFirst cleanse the heart 175\nFirst see God, then help the world 170\nFit vessels 286\nFood for a Bhakta 231\nFour classes of individual souls 44\nFour stages of realization 322\nGod and the Scriptures 326\nGod dwells in all 37\nGod, His devotee and His word one 259\nGod in everything 39\nGod is formless and with form 62\nGod is Infinite 312\nGod is like a magnet 59\nGod manifest 367\nGod Personal and Impersonal 28\nGod provides for those who have realized Him 334\nGod realized by purified soul 368\nGod the Absolute and God the Creator one 191\nGod the one Master 167\nGod, the sea of Immortality 249\nGod, the Sun of wisdom 60\nGod-vision and philanthropic works 171\nGod-vision the end of all performance of duty 172\nGood works and compassion for all 103\nHatha Yoga 274\nHe uplifted womanhood 17\nHelping others 295\nHis Divine powers 20\nHis love for humanity 420\nHis oneness with all 421\nHis Renunciation 16\nHis Sam\u00e2dhi 15\nHis spiritual insight. 13\nHouseholder's duties 333\nHow a householder should live in the world 77\nHow to fix one's mind on God 65\nHow to love God 72\nHow to pray 303\nHow to recognize a saint 78\nHuman soul the child of God 204\nHumility of R\u00e2makrishna 139\nIdeal of a wet-nurse 250\nIllustration of a bull's-eye lantern 61\nImage worship 63\nIntellectual apprehension and realization 373\nIntense devotion necessary 164\nIs work the aim of life? 240\nJn\u00e2na and Vijn\u00e2na 281\nJn\u00e2na Yoga 270\nJn\u00e2na Yoga and Bhakti Yoga 113\nKarma (past actions) 309\nKarma Yoga 271\nK\u00e2li, why black? 154\nKeshab and his disciples 257\nKnowledge is relative 389\nKumbhaka 275\nLaw of Karma 183\nLay cares on God 395\nLectures and sermons of preachers 245\nLife of Sr\u00ee R\u00e2makrishna by European Scholars 2\nLonging to hear about the Supreme 216\nLove for all 42\nLove of God, the one thing needful 313\nLover of God 191\nLust and gold unreal 70\nMadness of Divine love 74\nMahendra's visit to the Temple 22\nMany names of one God 26\nM\u00e2y\u00e2 114\nM\u00e2y\u00e2 and Day\u00e2 182\nMeaning of His illness 418\nMeaning of Keshab's illness 221\nMeaning of Om 96\nMeans of God-vision 71\nMeditation 276\nMoney is power 52\nNeed of solitude 69\nNon-attachment 112\nNon-attachment necessary 85\nNon-dualistic Ved\u00e2ntins 180\nOne God has many names 151\nOrdinary spiritual teachers are blind 169\nParable of a Brahmin Priest and his boy 125\n\u201e \u201e \u201e man seeking a light 283\n\u201e \u201e \u201e salt doll 109\n\u201e \u201e \u201e woodcutter 243\n\u201e \u201e \u201e woodcutter and his dream 280\n\u201e \u201e \u201e the ant and the mount of sugar 107\n\u201e \u201e \u201e bird on the mast 282\n\u201e \u201e \u201e chameleon 29\n\u201e \u201e \u201e deserted temple 174\n\u201e \u201e \u201e disciple and the mad elephant 38\n\u201e \u201e \u201e elephant and the blind men 28\n\u201e \u201e \u201e false S\u00e2dhu 205\n\u201e \u201e \u201e farmer and his only child 93\n\u201e \u201e \u201e farmer and the canal 49\n\u201e \u201e \u201e father and his dying son 84\n\u201e \u201e \u201e four travelers 255\n\u201e \u201e \u201e monk and the Zemindar 88\n\u201e \u201e \u201e pious weaver 90\n\u201e \u201e \u201e rich man and his Sircar 120\n\u201e \u201e \u201e snake and the holy man 40\n\u201e \u201e \u201e three robbers 253\n\u201e \u201e \u201e tiger 203\n\u201e \u201e \u201e Vedic father and his two sons 106\nPath of Bhakti Yoga best for this age 172\nPath of devotion 240\nPerfect knowledge brings realization of oneness 220\nPilgrimages 284\nPilgrimage useless 407\nPower of desire 314\nPower of repentance 59\nPower of the Lord's Holy Name 23\nPower of the mind 158\nPower of true faith and true longing 72\nPractice of non-attachment 68\nPray that worldly work may grow less 170\nPrayer for Bhakti 397\nPrayer of a true Bhakta 392\nPrayer to the Divine Mother 161, 360\nPride 75\nPride and egotism 338\nPsychic powers 320\nPure Bhakti and pure Jn\u00e2na one 194\nPure heart 59\nPurpose of His illness 422\nQualified non-dualism 370\nR\u00e2ja Yoga 271\nR\u00e2ja Yogi 148\nR\u00e2ma 409\nR\u00e2makrishna a Real Mah\u00e2tman 4\nR\u00e2makrishna as the Divine Ideal of all sects 9\nR\u00e2makrishna goes on board the steamer 143\nR\u00e2makrishna leaves Vidy\u00e2s\u00e2gara 141\nR\u00e2makrishna's childlike nature 100\nR\u00e2makrishna's ecstasy 143, 226, 363\nR\u00e2makrishna's influence upon the mind of Scholars 7\nR\u00e2makrishna's love of humor 102\nR\u00e2makrishna's Sam\u00e2dhi 131\nRealization 389\nRealization of God 14\nRelation between Brahman and Sakti 250\nRelation between God Personal and Impersonal 31\nRelation between Guru and disciples 111\nRenunciation 316\nRenunciation and worldly men 331\nRenunciation not necessary for all 158\nResign all to God 332\nResignation 89\nResistance of evil 40\nRight discrimination 79\nSages teach for the good of others 111\nSages who have reached the seventh plane 291\nSam\u00e2dhi of R\u00e2makrishna 189\nSankara and the pariah 305\nSattwa, Rajas, and Tamas 252\nSaving power of God's name 160\nSaviours 1\nScriptures and realization 355\nSectarianism and Brahma-Jn\u00e2na 256\nSeek God in man 352\nSelfless works purify the heart 136\nSelf-surrender and prayer 123\nSense of sin 159\nServant \"I\" of a Bhakta 56\nSeven mental planes 290\nSeven stages of spiritual evolution 53\nSigns of one who has realized God 237\nSigns of true wisdom 335\nSolitude a remedy for worldliness 163\nSolitude necessary 65\nSouls eternally free 293\nSpiritual awakening necessary to see the Reality 372\nSpiritual knowledge and the worldly 304\nSpiritual practices 306\nStages of spirituality 300\nStages of spiritual practice 307\nState of God-vision 317\nStory of a boy and the cow-house 245\nStory of a man and his cottage 246\nSubtle body 395\nSudden conversion 324\nTaught His disciples renunciation 417\nThe Absolute and the Divine Mother 259\nThe Absolute and the phenomenal 95\nThe Absolute Brahman 390\nThe Divinely-commissioned teacher 266\nThe Divine Mother will cure worldly attachment 337\nThe Divine presence in images 183\nThe ego of a calf 236\nThe importance of practice 396\nThe innermost feelings of a true Bhakta 147\nThe kingdom of God is everywhere 87\nThe Lord alone is thine own 121\nThe Lord smiles on two occasions 120\nThe Lord, the Ocean of Immortality 135\nThe Lord untouched by good and evil 393\nThe madness of love for the Lord 227\nThe mercy of the Lord 60\nThe Mother of the universe and Her sports 152\nThe nature of disciples must be examined 167\nThe necessity of practice 266\nThe omnipotence of faith 125\nTheosophy 399\nThe power of the Divine Mother 133, 155\nThe realm of the Divine Energy 150\nThe Siddha and the elephant 321\nThe signs of a true Jn\u00e2ni 280\nThe unripe and ripe \"I\" 256\nThe world as a dream 149\nThe world like a dream 93\nThe worldly \"I\" 55\nThe world unreal 76\nThe worthy will become perfect 415\nThought of freedom brings freedom 181\nThree classes of characters 339\nThree classes of religious teachers 285\nThree Gunas of nature 254\nThree obstacles in the way of perfection 388\nThree states of consciousness in ecstasy 302\nTime necessary for religious awakening 299\nTo live in the world or to renounce it 413\nTrials of a devotee 184\nTrue devotion and love 58\nTrue knowledge and ignorance 389\nTrue meaning of Git\u00e2 116\nTruthfulness. 232\nTwo classes of Paramahamsas 294\nUnity and variety 221\nUnity in diversity 115\nValue of lectures without Divine commission 268\nValue of solitude 162\nVanity 393\nVarious aspects of the Brahman 146\nVidy\u00e2 and Avidy\u00e2 104\nVijn\u00e2ni and Bhakta 114\nVishnu as a boar 260\nVision of the Divine Mother and the Absolute 343\nVisit to a poor Brahmin 211\nVisit to Devendra N\u00e2th T\u00e2gore 212\nVisit to Keshab Sen 219\nVisit to Padmalochana 214\nVy\u00e2sa and the Gopis 306\nWhat happens after death 278\nWhat is Bhakti? 132\nWhat thou thinkest, thou shalt become 47\nWhen God is attained worldly attachment vanishes 97\nWhere R\u00e2makrishna lived 21\n'Who is a true spiritual teacher? 168\nWhy God cannot, be seen 258\nWork and grace 83\nWork necessary for God-vision 80\nWork without devotion 249\nWork with the mind fixed on God 399\nWorldly attachment and realization 300\nWorship God in solitude 328\nWorship of the spiritual preceptor 402\nZoological Garden, Visit to 209","title":"The Gospel of Ramakrishna: Index","type":"page"}