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The Esoteric Significance of the Kathopanishad - 3.10 Swami Krishnananda

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========================================================= -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27/02/2020. Chapter 3: Nachiketas’ Third Boon-10. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. However, the difficulty arises because we are trying to think God, to think an answer to a Universal question, and the Universal cannot be thought by the mind. This is the reason why we cannot get a humanly intelligible answer to this query. A Universal situation cannot be conceived by a particular mind. A particular person, a particular reasoning or logic can conceive a particular circumstance but not a Universal circumstance. #Therefore, God cannot be thought by the mind, and we cannot know what moksha is. Moksha is entry into Universality; we may call it God, Ishvara, Brahman, the Absolute. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

The Esoteric Significance of the Kathopanishad - 3.9 Swami Krishnananda

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======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11/02/2020. Chapter 3: Nachiketas’ Third Boon-9. Post-9. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #So losing oneself is not a satisfaction; and we are after satisfaction only. ## Already it was said that we do not want the good, we want the pleasant only.  ###It is a great joy to visualise God, to ask something from God, to derive strength from God and obtain every blessed thing from God, but to enter into His stomach and get digested by Him is not what we seek.  We get frightened by the very thought of losing ourselves because the greatest joy is to exist, and the greatest sorrow is to get annihilated.  "The death sentence is the greatest punishment because it annihilate