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katha upanishad is story of vawjasravas& his son nachiketa . Once he saw his father distributing cows & wealth to seek the benefit of sacrifice.
He found that the cows given away were all that lived its life.He asked his father sire"to whom would you give me out.
This he repeated thrice.
And now vajasravas said "To Death".And he reaches yamas abode stays without food for three days.
So he granted three boons for nachiketa.
1.my father shouldbe free from anger &that he recognise me & greet me when i am back.-granted.
2.how the dwellers of heaven gain their immortality.-it was explained to him &also how the fire as a sacrifice will lead to immortality .He also granted that the sacrifice that is perfomed for seeking heaven shall be named as Nachiketas.
3.When a man dies some believe that he exist & some that he does not.I would like to know.
Yama spake thus.
There is a difference between good & pleasent,one has to choose good .
Among the knowledge & ignorance one should elect knowledge.
Wonderful is the person who can explain Him.
Thorough is the personwho find Him.
&great is the man who can visualise when even being taught.
Nachiketa asks Yama-what is beyond the right & wrong-karmic cycle.
Yama says-the syllable" Aum".
& indeed it is the Brahman
Wise knows that the self is bodiless within bodies,as the unchanging among changing,all pervading
there is nothing to grieve.
Not by any sense organ that he can be apprehended unless one says to oneself that He is?
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