5. "WHAT IS THE UNDERTAKING OF YAMA (LORD OF DEATH) THAT IS BEING ACHIEVED THROUGH ME( WHO IS THUS GIVEN TO YAMA)."

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Chapter-1.

Section-1.

Mantram-5.


Naciketas thoughts about Yama the Lord of Death and What he has to on meeting Yama:-

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1. Naciketas retires from the presence of his preoccupied father to ponder over and digest the circumstances.


2. Here Naciketas surprisingly positioned by a most unexpected development around and about him, in the external world of his relationships. He started to analyse and discriminate and finally to judge the situation.


3. He thought that the duty of a disciple or a son is to be ever implicit in the service of his teacher or his father.


4. With reference to the execution of duty to a Guru, the disciples are classified under three heads: a). the best, b). the so-so, and c). the bad.


5. The best ones are those who, knowing the wish of the Guru, always serve him; 


6. The so-so are those who are infallibly obedient and execute any order from the Guru when expressed or commanded;


7. And the bad ones are those despicable wretches who fail to execute even when commanded by the Guru.


8. Here in our story, Goutama was to Naciketas  both father and Guru in one. 


9. And these words from the son-disciple Naciketas : "Among many, I am the first; at times I am, mediocre,  meaning I was never a third one."


10. Naciketas wondered, "What is the great work that will be accomplished by Yama through me, who  am thus sent forth by my father?"   

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