The Secret of the Katha Upanishad : 2.11. Swami Krishnananda.
====================================================================== ===================================================================== Friday, June 17, 2022. 17:00. Discourse -2. Post -11. ========================================================================= The third asking of Nachiketas is a wondrous asking. Wonderful is the asker of this question! Wonderful is the answer to this question! The answer was given to Nachiketas finally, because Nachiketas was made of such a stern stuff within him. He rejected all the tempting objects of the world. Even universal knowledge was not sufficient to Nachiketas. The Vaishvanara-Agni-Vidya was not adequate. And what is this question of Nachiketas, the third question? ye-yam prete vicikitsā manuṣye ystī-tyeke nāyam astīti caike; “Does the soul exist, or does the soul not exist? What is it? Is it, or is it not? What do you mean by the soul?” The question whether the soul exists or not can be answered only when we know what the soul is.