KATHA UPANISHAD - 10. Swami Advayananda.

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People of Kerala ignorant about the tatvam of ONAM : Swami ji with images explains the truth of ONAM CELEBRATION.

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Friday, September 09,  2022, 07:00.
Chapter 1.Section-1: (29 Mantras) : The story of Nachiketas in the House of Death
(“A Leap Into the Beyond”) :  Bhashyam by Sri Swami Adi Shankaracharya ji.

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Chapter-1, Section-1.
THE FIRST BOON
Mantram -10: Boon 1: “Forgive my Father”
Post-10.

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THE FIRST BOON :

And so, Nachiketas asks his boons one by one. Lord Yama has given young Nachiketas three blank cheques. What does the boy do with them?

He thinks of his family first – the suffering of his father, the anguish in his mind of having had to lose his son in a fit of rage. Then he thinks of the welfare of others, his community, through gaining merit for them to go to higher worlds after death. And thirdly, he rises even higher than that and seeks liberation – to go beyond all sorrow, beyond birth and death, to that realm for which Lord Yama alone is the most perfect teacher.

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Mantram-1.1.10: Boon 1: “Forgive my Father”

"Shaanta-sankalpah sumanaa yathaa syaad  veeta-manyuh gautamah  maa abhi mrityo; 

tvat prasrishtam maa abhivadet prateeta etat trayaanaam prathamam varam vrine."

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Translation :

Nachiketas says to Lord Yama:

1 Shaanta-sankalpah sumanaa yathaa syaad  =  “May he be pacified, and may he be kindly disposed.

2 veeta-manyuh gautamah maa abhi mrityo;  =  Free from anger may Gautama, my father, be towards me, O Lord of Death.

3 tvat prasrishtam maa abhivadet prateeta =  When I am sent back to him by you, may he greet me and recognize me.

4 etat trayaanaam prathamam varam vrine.  =  This is the first of the three boons that I choose.”

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Commentary :

1 With no thought of anything for himself, Nachiketas asks for his father’s emotional pain to be relieved, for he did feel great regret at what he had done. 

2 Nachiketas asks for a restoration in his relationship with his father. The anger felt by the father should be completely forgotten.

3 He also asks indirectly to be released and returned to Earth by asking for his father  to recognize him as his son and not as a ghost returning from another world! He wishes to feel his father’s love once more.

4 Indeed, he makes quite a job of including so many things in his first boon – a very tactful request that covers everything regarding his relationship with his father.

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Next - Mantram : 1.1.11: Yama Grants the First Boon.
To be continued ...

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