Kathamrita Volume II - Swami Vivekananda

When Thakur attended the festival at Panihati,Goswami Navadvip talked to him about thiscontext of the Gita. The Goswami said, ‘By theroot ‘tag’ it becomes ‘taga’. Add the ‘i’ suffixto tag and it becomes ‘tagi’. Both ‘tagi’ and‘tyagi’ convey the same meaning.’Dr. Sarkar — Someone told me what Radhameans. He asked me whether I knew themeaning of the word Radha. He said, ‘It iswhat it becomes when you reverse the word; inother words, it means ‘dhara,’ ‘dhara [21] ’. (Alllaugh.) (Smiling) Let us stop here today at‘dhara’.Chapter IVWorldly knowledge and scienceThe Doctor has gone. M. comes and sits closeto Sri Ramakrishna. They talk quietly together.M. had been to the Doctor’s house. He speaksof what they talked about there.M. (to Sri Ramakrishna) — The Doctor wasfeeding his goldfish with the husk of greencardamom and sparrows with balls of refinedwheat flour. He said, ‘See, they didn’t see thecardamom husk, so they left. First of all, oneneeds to have knowledge [22] ; love anddevotion [23] will follow. As soon as the flour