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The Secret of the Katha Upanishad : 3.5. Swami Krishnananda.

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 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Wednesday, October 05, 2022. 06:00. Discourse -3.  Post -16. ========================================================================= Now, what is knowledge? Why is it regarded as so subtle? The subtlety of it really lies in the fact that it is not an object of knowledge. Anything that is an object of our understanding or mind can be regarded as a gross presentation definable in character—spatial and temporal in its location, and causal in its connection. The whole world is a network of space, time and cause. Everything is somewhere in space. Everything is sometime in the passage of the temporal process of events, and everything is connected with something else in a causal chain. Everything is a cause, and everything is an effect. This is the way we try to understand things. But this supreme mystery about which Nachiketas put the third questi