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.
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#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 annihilates the very being of the person, and we cannot do anything worse than that. To imagine self-annihilation is itself an unimaginable position. Such a mysterious situation was trotted out as a suggestion behind the answer to this question of what happens when one crosses beyond mortality, the total involvement in creation itself."
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#“My dear boy, why are you troubling me? I made a mistake in asking you to choose a boon.” 

Kathopanishad-Chapter-1, Section (Valli-1)-1, Mantram-21. second line. :

##"Ma moparotsir ati ma srjainam" : “Leave me. Do not press me like this,” said Lord Yama.
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#But Nachiketas would not leave him like that. 

##In the various verses of the Kathopanishad and in certain other Upanishads, all which we have to take as one Veda-rasi, a single gospel, we have certain indications into these mysteries. 

*When Yama himself was not prepared to answer this question, I am not supposed to speak to you as to what it is. [Laughter from the audience] None of us is equal to him. We cannot lift even his shoe.
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#I am only trying to place before you a great difficulty, and not trying to solve that problem. 

##There cannot be a greater difficulty than God Himself; therefore, any kind of question concerning God is a great difficulty. Spiritual practice is a difficulty because it concerns God in some way.'

###Sadhana is a difficulty. Nama japa is a difficulty. Concentration of mind is a difficulty. Sense control is a difficulty. All this is so because these attempts, these enterprises on our part are connected with God, Who is a mystery. 

"We cannot say God is, we cannot say God is not, because to say ‘is’ would be to counterbalance Him with ‘is not’, and we cannot conceive anything as an emptiness unless there is a background of something that is."
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