Lecture by Swami Tyagananda on September 26, 2010 at the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society in Boston. This is the first lecture in the ongoing series on "Contemplation Through Songs," in which we study the songs that were sung by and in the presence of Sri Ramakrishna. The translations of these songs are available in the book "The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna," while the originals can be found in the Bengali "Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita."