Kathopanishad : ( 04/03/2013. )

============================================================================================ Friday 28, Aug 2026, 16.30. Vedanta & Upanishads The Secret of the Katha Upanishad: 7.1 Discourse No. 7-1. Swami Krishnananda. Post -32. ============================================================================================ The problem of the Katha Upanishad may be regarded as what pertains to the enigma of life and death. The great question of life is also the great question of death. While life is a great mystery before us, death stares at us as a still greater mystery. Both these sides of the same coin of experience stand before us as an eternal query which sages and saints from time immemorial have been trying to confront and solve to the satisfaction of each individual seeker. The Katha Upanishad is given to us by the Lord of Death in the context of the aspiration of Nachiketas who sought for eternal life. It is death that leads to life, as it were. 'Die to live', is the ...

========================================================================================================== Monday 10, Aug 2026, 07:25. The Secret of the Katha Upanishad: 6.2. Discourse No. 6 Swami Krishnananda. Post -31. =========================================================================================== There is something more than Universality. What could it be? If the mind is to contemplate it, the heart would give way, the brain would cease to function. Every cell of the body will melt, and it is this condition, indescribable, inscrutable, that made saints and sages dance in ecstasy. You must have heard of Mira dancing, Tukaram dancing—all these saints danced. And why did they? They were not crazy people. It was the bursting experience of a supernatural delight that entered them. They could not explain it. They could not express it in words. They could not even contain it within themselves. It could be expressed only in an ecstasy of a supernormal behaviour. The individual i...