# The Gospel of Râmakrishna/Index

​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