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The Esoteric Significance of the Kathopanishad - 6.18. Swami Krishnananda.

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, August 4, 2021. 10:19.. PM. Chapter 6: The Meaning of Not Coming Back - 18. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the message of the Kathopanishad, and of all the Upanishads, and of the Bhagavadgita. This is everyone’s message to everyone else. When one loves another, when one wants status, money, land, property, everything, these are broken glass pieces we hug under the impression that they are the infinites that we are wanting. So we are groping in the darkness of ignorance, searching for the Infinite that we have lost but being satisfied with a little tinsel, a little piece of tin which looks like a shining crystal in the light of the sun. "Manasaś ca parā buddhir buddher ātmā mahān paraḥ; mahataḥ param avyaktam, avyaktāt puruṣaḥ paraḥ puruṣān na paraṁ k