KATHA UPANISHAD - 28. Swami Advayananda.

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Tuesday,  23  May,  2023, 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 Sankaracharya ji.

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Chapter-1, Section-1.

THE THIRD BOON :

Mantram -1.1.28: Response 4: Chooses Wisdom Over Folly

Post-28.

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Mantram -1.1.28: Response 4: Chooses Wisdom Over Folly


1 

Ajeeryataam amritaanaam  =  The proximity of the undecaying immortals,

upetya  =  have I reached.

2 

jeeryam martyah   =  Being a perishable mortal myself,

kvadhah sthah prajaanan;  =  knowing well of existence on earth down below,

3 

abhi-dhyaayan   =  having seen the worthlessness of

varnah ratih pramodaan  =   beauty and the enjoyments of love,

4 

atideerghe jeevite kah rameta.   =  why will I rejoice in wanting an extended life-span? 

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1. 

Having come all the way to the region of Yama, 2 who in his right senses will ask for 

the things of the lower earth region, 3 for which he has already developed intense 

dispassion? It will be foolish to accept that which one has positively renounced.

2. 

The word Kvadhahsthah has two meanings:

i) Ku-adha-sthah: “a dweller of earth, which is below the heavenly regions”; or

ii) Kva-tadastha: “where one gets absorbed in evanescent things”.

3. 

Varna-rati-pramodan: “taking delight in a variety of pleasures”. It is used here to 

cover the entire world of sensual pleasures with all its distractions, sense appeal and 

frivolousness. This is how Nachiketas sums up the Apsaras and their troupe of entertainers.

4. 

Why would one want a long life? Is it just to enjoy frivolous things? What a waste 

of a boon that would be!

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Such is the mood of Nachiketas that everything Unreal is totally rejected. He has already unwittingly done the highest Vedantic negation. Such a ripe student can be rocketed into realisation immediately after Sravana.

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Next

1.1.29: Response 5: “I Stick to My Original Boon”!

To be continued

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know the self, know the self in Nature, know the self in Jiva, Further Oneness.

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