VML-2/25/01 & Special Announcement

[Guest guest]

You have heard of the Brahmins and their priestcraft many times, but

very few of you have ever stopped to ask what makes this wonderful

band of men the rules of their fellows. They are the poorest of all

the classes in the country; and the secret of their power lies in

their renunciation. They never covet wealth. Theirs is the poorest

priesthood in the world, and therefore the most powerful. Even in

this poverty, a Brahmin's wife will never allow a poor man to pass

through the village without giving him something to eat. That is

considered the highest duty of the mother in India; and because she

is the mother it is her duty to be served last; she must see that

everyone is served before her turn comes.

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A Special Publication Announcement

for Sri Ramakrishna's Birthday, February 25, 2001:

 

Now Available on a CD Rom

 

CONVERSATIONS WITH SRI RAMAKRISHNA

 

A new, complete, word-for-word translation from Bengali of M's Gospel

Sri, Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita

 

By Sachindra Kumar Majumdar

 

Now you can read the words of Sri Ramakrishna as M.

(Mahendranath Gupta) recorded them in his diaries from 1882 through

1886. Conversations With Sri Ramakrishna is a word-for-word

translation into English of Ramakrishna's conversations as they

occurred. The translation was written out in longhand virtually

without erasure or correction and appears in exact form as the

translator, Sachindra Kumar Majumdar , took it off the pages of M.'s

five volumes published in Bengali. No attempt has been made to

polish or edit Ramakrishna's words. Nothing has been added, nothing

taken away.

The translator, Sachindra Kumar Majumdar (1909-1999), was a

disciple of Swami Shivananda, the second head of the Ramakrishna

Monastic Order. As a young man in Bengal, Mr. Majumdar met M. and

soon began experimenting with the translation of Kathamrita into

English. The wish to provide an exact and complete rendering of the

original script in a manner that would have satisfied M. became

almost a life-long challenge for Mr. Majumdar and culminated in this

translation when he was in his eighties. Mr. Majumdar was an

independent pioneer in the teaching of yoga practices and Vedanta

philosophy in the West. For many years in addition to teaching

classes and private students, he was a faculty member of the New

School for Social Research in New York City.

 

A CD Rom publication: Conversations With Sri Ramakrishna is now

available on a single CD Rom for $25.00 including shipping and

handling. Available March 1 by VISA/MASTERCARD on our web site:

www.universaltemple.org. Or send a check or money order to the

address below. Please e-mail for a discount schedule available to

book stores. PC and Mac compatible.

 

SRV Retreat Center/Interfaith Peace Temple,

20 Jennings Rd., Greenville, NY 12083

e-mail: sarada

Order by VISA/MASTERCARD after March 1: www.universaltemple.org