Kali Mandir Satsang

Class by Rev Dr. Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati on Book X of Srimad Bhagavatam introducing the story of Brahma stealing the cows and cowherd boya given at Kali Mandir Ramakrishna Ashram on 19 May 2025.

Scripture class by Rev. Dr. Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati on Devi Gita, chapter 2, verses 19-21, given to students of the Ramakrishna Seminary at Kali Mandir via Zoom on 16 April 2025.

अपरिच्छन्नताऽप्येवमत एव मता मम |

तच्चज्ञानं नात्मधर्मो धर्मत्वे जडताऽत्मनः || १९ ||

aparicchannatā'pyevamata eva matā mama |

taccajñānaṃ nātma-dharmo dharmatve jaḍatā'tmanaḥ || 19 ||

19. "Therefore I am regarded truly as an undivided whole, and that consciousness is not an attribute of the Self, for then the Self would be like an object."

ज्ञानस्य जडशेषत्वं म दृष्टं न च सम्भवै |

चिद्धर्मत्वं तथा नास्ति चितश्चिन्न हि विद्यते || २० ||

jñānasya jaḍaśeṣatvaṃ ma dṛṣṭaṃ na ca sambhavai |

cid-dharma-tvaṃ tathā nāsti citaścinna hi vidyate || 20 ||

20. "In consciousness no possible trace of the object state can be found. And so consciousness also has no attributes: consciousness is not a quality separable from consciousness itself."

तस्मादात्मज्ञानरूपः सुखरूपश्च सर्वदा |

सत्यः पूर्णोऽप्यसङ्गश्च द्वैतज्जालविवर्जितः || २१ ||

tasmād-ātma-jñāna-rūpaḥ sukha-rūpaśca sarvadā |

satyaḥ pūrṇo'pyasaṅgaśca dvaitajjālavivarjitaḥ || 21 ||

21. "Therefore the Self in essence is consciousness, and bliss as well, always, it is the real and complete, beyond all relation, and free from the illusion of duality."

Scripture class by Rev. Dr. Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati on Devi Gita, chapter 2, verse18, given to students of the Ramakrishna Seminary at Kali Mandir via Zoom on 9 April 2025.

मा न भूवं हि भूयासमिति प्रेमात्मनि स्थितम् | सर्वस्याऽन्यस्य मिथ्यात्वादसङ्गत्वं स्फुटं मम || १८ || mā na bhūvaṃ hi bhūyāsamiti premātmani sthitam | sarvasyā'nyasya mithyātvādasaṅgatvaṃ sphuṭaṃ mama || 18 || 18. "The feeling "Let me not cease to be; let me exist forever," is rooted in love for the Self. Certainly there is no actual relations between me and all else, since all else is false."

Scripture class by Rev. Dr. Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati on Devi Gita, chapter 2, verses 15 through 17 given to students of the Ramakrishna Seminary at Kali Mandir via Zoom on 2 April 2025.

जाग्रत्स्वप्नसुषुप्त्यादौ दृश्यस्य व्यभिचारतः | संविदो व्यभिचारश्च नाऽनुभूतोऽस्ति कर्हिछित् || १५ || jāgrat-svapna-suṣuptyādau dṛśyasya vyabhicārataḥ | saṃvido vyabhicāraśca nā'nubhūto'sti karhichit || 15 || 15. "The visible world appears and disappears constantly in the various states of waking, dream, and deep sleep."

यदि तस्याऽप्यनुभवस्तर्ह्ययं येन साक्शिणा | अनुभूतः स एवाऽत्र शिष्टः संविद्वपुः पुरा || १६ || yadi tasyā'pyanubhavastarhyayaṃ yena sākśiṇā | anubhūtaḥ sa evā'tra śiṣṭaḥ saṃvidvapuḥ purā || 16 || 16. "Even if this consciousness itself became an object of perception, then the witness of that perception would abide as the real pure consciousness, as before."

अत एव नित्यत्वं प्रोक्तं सछास्त्रकोविदैः | आनन्दरूपता चऽस्याः परप्रेमास्पदत्वतह् || १७ || ata eva nitya-tvaṃ proktaṃ sachāstra-kovidaiḥ | ānanda-rūpatā ca'syāḥ para-premāspadatvatah || 17 || 17. "And so those versed in religious treaties regarding the real declare consciousness to be eternal. Its nature is bliss, for it is the object of supreme love."

Discourse by Revered Dr. Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati, on names 340 through 344 of verses 42 of the "Thousand Names of Kali", given at Kali Mandir Ramakrishna Ashram on 29 March 2025.

ऋक्सामाथर्वनिलया रागिणी शोभनस्वरा | कलकण्ठी कम्बुकण्ठी वेणुवीणापरायणा || ४२ || ṛk-sāmātharva-nilayā rāgiṇī śobhana-svarā | kala-kaṇṭhī kambu-kaṇṭhī veṇu-vīṇā-parāyaṇā || 42 ||

340. रागिणी rāgiṇī 341. शोभनस्वरा śobhana-svarā  342. कलकण्ठी kala-kaṇṭhī 343. कम्बुकण्ठी kambu-kaṇṭhī 344. वेणुवीणापरायणा veṇu-vīṇā-parāyaṇā