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1036: 1406: 1394: 211:. Initially when M began writing the diaries, he had no plans of publication. Regarding his methodology M wrote, "I wrote everything from memory after I returned home. Sometimes I had to keep awake the whole night...Sometimes I would keep on writing the events of one sitting for seven days, recollect the songs that were sung, and the order in which they were sung, and the 1382: 280:. The first four volumes were published in 1902, 1904, 1908 and 1910 respectively and the fifth volume in 1932, delayed because of M's health problems. At the time of M's death in 1932, he was contemplating at least six to seven volumes, after which he hoped to rearrange the entire material chronologically. 291:
was published from 15 to 50 years after the sessions with Ramakrishna, and covers a total of only 186 days spread over the last four and a half years of the saint's life. The full text of the original diary has never been made publicly available. Considered as a constructed 'text' rather than simply
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including, "... childless widows, young school-boys (K1: 240, 291; K2: 30, 331; K3: 180, 185, 256), aged pensioners (K5: 69-70), Hindu scholars or religious figures (K2: 144, 303; K3: 104, 108, 120; K4: 80, 108, 155, 352), men betrayed by lovers (K1: 319), people with suicidal tendencies (K4:
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contains the conversations of Ramakrishna from 19/26 February 1882 to 24 April 1886, during M's visits. M—even with his partial reporting—offers information about a great variety of people with very different interests converging at
248:(1897). After the death of Ramakrishna, the growing public recognition would have encouraged Gupta to make his diary public. M thought that his was an important medium for public dissemination of Ramakrishna's ideas. M also sought 308:
and Vrajaprana write, "...at the time of M' death, he had enough diary material for another five or six volumes. Poignantly and frustratingly, M's diary notations were as sparse as they were cryptic. As a result, M's
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The latest complete translation, by Dharm Pal Gupta, is intended to be as close to the Bengali original as possible, conveyed by the words "Word by word translation" on the cover. All 5 volumes have been published.
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project ended with the fifth volume. And, lest there be any misunderstanding, it needs to be said that the sketchy notations which constitute the remainder of M's diary belong solely to M's descendants, not to the
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to 20th century readers is related to its display of testimonies to authenticity, careful listing of 'types of evidence', and meticulous references to exact dates and times."
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in Kolkata. M had the habit of maintaining a personal diary since the age of thirteen. M met Ramakrishna in 1882 and attracted by Ramakrishna's teachings, M would maintain a
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is regarded as a Bengali classic and revered among the followers as a sacred scripture. Its expurgated translation into English is entitled
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Sen, Amiya P. (2001). "Three essays on Sri Ramakrishna and his times". Indian Institute of Advanced Study.
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record Ramakrishna's conversations and actions in his diary, which finally took the form of a book
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reveals the presence of certain fairly self-conscious authorial strategies...The high degree of '
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274-275), small-time businessmen (K4: 244), and, of course, adolescents dreading the grind of
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also records the devotional songs that were sung by Ramakrishna, including those of
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entries, M records the data, time and place of the conversation. The title
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excerpts from his diary were published in leading Bengali journals like
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and the Calcutta middle classes: an old problematic revisited".
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Several English translations exist; the most well-known is
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An exploration of the Ramakrishna Vivekananda tradition
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Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita as a religious classic
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A translation by Sachindra Kumar Majumdar, entitled
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Mahendranath Gupta
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Spirituality
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Mahendranath Gupta
Sri Ramakrishna
Bengali
Bengali
Mahendranath Gupta
Ramakrishna
The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
Mahendranath Gupta
Ripon College
Kolkata
Presidency College
stenographic
samadhi
Vaishnava
Bhagavata Purana
Dasgupta 1986
Sarada Devi
transliterated
Udbodhan
Janmabhumi
Sumit Sarkar
truth effect
Tyagananda
Ramakrishna Order

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