The Secret of the Katha Upanishad: 5.3. - Swami Krishnananda.
========================================================================================================= Monday 08, June 2023, 18:30. The Secret of the Katha Upanishad: 5.3. Swami Krishnananda. Discourse No. 5-3. Post -28. ============================================================================================== Discourse No. 5 The path of the soul to its supreme destination is explained in the Katha Upanishad through a description of the chariot of the body. How does this chariot move? What is the methodology involved in the progress of the individual to its goal? This inner process of the movement of the individual to the Absolute is what we know as the practice of sadhana, or yoga. While there are elaborate textbooks on this subject, the Upanishad touches upon the point in a single mantra, as follows: 1.yacched vāṅ manasī prājñas tad yacchej, etc. The way of yoga is a process of gradual ascent and illumination. It is also a systematised process of achieving fr...