The Esoteric Significance of the Kathopanishad - 3.6 Swami Krishnananda
======================================================================== ======================================================================== 28/11/2019. Chapter 3: Nachiketas’ Third Boon-6. ======================================================================== Much worse, we cannot even distinguish between what is good and what is not. We have been educated in a wrong way, due to which reason we confuse the good with the pleasant, and vice versa, and we ask for immediate satisfactions, though in the long run they may bring us untold sorrow and suffering. We would not mind going to hell tomorrow if today our ego is to be scratched to its own satisfaction. Tomorrow will be hell, but it does not matter if today I am happy. The great Master Yama initiated Nachiketas into the mystery of the discrimination between the real and the unreal, that is, the capacity to know what is and what is not. Actually, the question was: What is finally? Astity eke nayam astiti cai