00:00Nachiketa barely a teenager and he has the honesty and the guts to go to his father and say
00:06of what use is all this that you are doing who is dependent on somebody close to him and yet has
00:13the guts to utter the truth and the guts to leave his home that's where Nachiketa's glory really
00:20lies. Can you visualize all this? Oh the Kath Upanishad does not explicitly tell of all this
00:27but this is how it would have happened. Nachiketa is and he's chasing the father. What really is
00:32going on? Look at that cow. Look look father look half dead and now comes the moment of glory real
00:38glory. Nachiketa says fine if you are giving me away to death god then here I go away to death.
00:46We all will die in that sense we all will face the death god one day but not in the way Nachiketa
00:51that's dispassion that's determination about truth he asks right in the end that's his final query what
00:59does he ask? Nachiketa is a mere boy dependent on his father and he has the honesty and the guts
01:15to go to his father to go to his father and say of what use is all this that you are doing
01:22who will benefit from these old and sick and milkless cows
01:38I assure you that was more difficult than facing Yamraj we glorify Nachiketa's encounter with Yamraj and that keeps things safe for us
02:04Nice because we very well know that this encounter is a myth we very well know that we will never have the occasion in our own life to stand face to face with the death god at least not in the way the Upanishad narrates
02:34we all will die in that sense we all will face the death god one day but not in the way Nachiketa faced not in the way of having a conversation in words and sentences so nice and safe say glory to the one who can stand
03:02and unflinching unflappable in front of Yamraj I'll put it differently Parmishwari I'll say glory to the one
03:16who is dependent on somebody close to him and yet has the guts to utter the tooth and the guts to leave his home that's where Nachiketa's glory really lies
03:42Yemraj is fictitious What danger is there in facing fiction? Nachiketa's father is not fictitious there is great danger in facing someone real especially when you are dependent on that real person
04:04And at first father who is an influential person keeps dismissing the boy away
04:28he keeps dismissing the boy away but Nachiketa keeps pestering him finally annoyed by the boy's pesky behaviour the father says I am giving you away to death
04:52Obviously the father is just uttering some nonsense in a moment of rage
05:04The boy has been annoying him
05:08The boy has been questioning his moral authority
05:14The father does not really want to put away the boy
05:20The father just wants the boy to leave him alone
05:26and not irritate him
05:28After all it's a big ceremony that is going on
05:32Thousands of cows are being given to Brahmins
05:36The father is busy overseeing the arrangement
05:40And the boy is chasing him
05:44And the boy is saying father hold
05:48What the hell is going on?
05:50These are useless cows
05:52You are donating them
05:54What is the worth of such a donation?
05:56The father is saying stay away
06:00Can you visualize all this?
06:05The Kathopanisha does not explicitly tell of all this
06:10That which I am narrating
06:14Consists of a lot of my own construction
06:19But this is how it would have happened
06:24The Chiketa is barely a teenager
06:28And he is chasing the father
06:30Father
06:31What really is going on?
06:33Look at that cow! Look! Look! Father! Look!
06:36Half dead!
06:44So the father says you keep shut
06:50The boy does not relent
06:51Finally father says
06:54I am giving you away to God
06:57Death God
07:04And now comes the moment of glory
07:05Real glory
07:07The Chiketa says
07:08Fine!
07:09If you are giving me away
07:12To death God
07:14Then here I go away
07:16To death
07:18That's
07:19That's
07:20Dispassion
07:21That's determination
07:27After that
07:28What happens?
07:31It's smooth
07:32And natural
07:35The Chiketa has already cleared the big test
07:40Facing Yamraj is the smaller test
07:43Having cleared the big test
07:44Obviously
07:45He will emerge with flying colors in the smaller one
07:50The big test
07:52Is to leave the home
07:54The big test is to give up all dependency
08:01And after that obviously
08:03You will be blessed with the truth
08:05And look at
08:09The Chiketa
08:11The first thing he asks
08:13Yamraj is
08:15You know
08:18Let my father be alright
08:20Please
08:22Bless my father
08:24Please don't let him stay angry
08:25His father has done
08:33The unthinkable
08:37And the Chiketa
08:40Still has no bitterness
08:42He says
08:44God first of all
08:46You bless my father
08:47About truth
08:51About truth
08:52He asks right in the end
08:54That's his final query
08:55What does he ask?
08:58Tell me
09:00That
09:02By which immortality is achieved
09:04What really is immortality?
09:07He doesn't directly ask about death
09:09He asks about
09:11Immortality
09:13And Yamraj says
09:16Boy
09:18You can have
09:22Expensive toys
09:23If you want
09:25You can have
09:26The best of foods
09:27If you want
09:31The latest gadgets
09:32If you so please
09:38A brand new car for you
09:40Along with the driving license
09:42It doesn't matter if you are underage
09:44I am the death god you see
09:49All that Nachiketa could be tempted with
09:51Was tried
09:54It failed on him
09:56All the knowledge that you find
09:58In the Upanishad
09:59Is easy to get
10:02Once you have overcome dependency
10:07Once you have
10:08Stayed
10:11True to yourself
10:17Once you have
10:19Won over
10:24The craving for security
10:27Stability
10:29The confines of a comfortable palace
10:34More comfortable palace
10:40The comfort of a regular routine
10:44Once you have been
10:49Able to go beyond all this
10:54Then the truth is obvious
10:56That is not at all difficult
10:58All the great and golden verses
11:01That you come across in the Kathupanishad
11:06They will spring
11:08Up right from your heart
11:10They will not be
11:12Distant
11:14Or difficult anymore
11:16Do you get this?
11:19Those verses are the easiest part
11:24You start hearing those verses
11:26Right in your breath
11:27They are the easiest part
11:28The more difficult part
11:29Is right in the beginning
11:33The more difficult part is
11:35When you ask your father for the truth
11:38Knowing fully well that he is not in the truth
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