Kathopanishad : ( 04/03/2013. )

====================================================================================== Tuesday 13, October 2026, 06:15. Books Vedanta & Upanishads Commentary on the Kathopanishad: 2.1. Swami Krishnananda Discourse 2: The First Two Boons-1. ======================================================================================== Discourse 2: The First Two Boons -1. We observed that the boy Nachiketas stood there at the gates of the palace of Yama for three days and nights without taking any food, and without even drinking water. The great Master speaks to Nachiketas: “Prostrations to you, O holy lad. As a recompense, as an expiation for all the mistakes that may be involved in not treating you properly, I offer you three boons.” Nachiketas now speaks what he would like to have from Yama, the great Master: the first boon, the second boon, and the third boon. In asking, the boy is very logical. The easiest thing, which can be granted at once, he asks for initially. A more difficult thi...

  ====================================================================================== 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 ...