Commentary on the Kathopanishad: 1.3 Swami Krishnananda
====================================================================================== Monday 05, October 2026, 17:40. Books Vedanta & Upanishads Commentary on the Kathopanishad: 1.3 Swami Krishnananda Discourse 1: Nachiketas Goes to the Lord of Death -3. ======================================================================================== In another edition of this Upanishad that occurs in the Taittiriya Brahmana, the same story is told in a different way. A voice from the sky speaks. Nachiketas went to the abode of the Lord of Death, and passed three nights in the absence of Yama. He went there when Yama was not at home, and stood outside, starving. After three days, when the lord of the house came, he asked, “You have been here for three nights. What did you eat?” “On the first day, your cattle,” so goes the reply. “What did you eat on the second day?” “Your progeny.” “What did you eat on the third day?” “All your good works.” The word used in the Sanskrit language for ...