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The Esoteric Significance of the Kathopanishad - 3.3 Swami Krishnananda

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======================================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  30/08/2019 Chapter 3: Nachiketas’ Third Boon-3. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recap :  The word that is used in the Kathopanishad is deeply mystical, esoteric, eluding in its significance. Mahati samparaye is the word used in the Upanishad. Samparaya is life beyond, or we may simply say ‘the beyond’. Well, usually the word ‘life beyond’ is something with which many people are acquainted. It is a process of being reborn into some other form, incarnation; we may call it rebirth somewhere in some way. Was Nachiketas wanting to know how a person is reborn after death? This could not have been his question. One who has been granted this great boon of the mystery of Vaishvanara, which was the s