Ome Sahanavavu,

Saha'navvu'naubunaktu,

Sahhviriam Karavavah,

Tejas'inavadi,

Tamas, Tumavid bivishawah

Om shantte, shanty, shanty.

Ome, may the Lord protect us both the teacher and the taught together by revealing knowledge.

May he protect us both by giving us the results of knowledge.

May we attain vigor together.

Let what we learn, let what we study be illuminating.

May we not cavail at each other.

Ome, peace, peace, peace.

So we are studying the Kato Upanishad and the question that the student, the little boy Nachikaeta asks Yama, the Lord of Death.

He asked the question about the nature of the self. Who am I or what am I? The fundamental question in Vedanta. Now Yama, first he dissuades the little boy from asking this question, saying it's very difficult, very subtle. When the boy persists, he tempts the student with all sorts of worldly and other worldly temptations.

And the student demonstrates his readiness by showing his dispassion.

But he does not want any of that. He just wants the answer to his question, the secret of the self, what we are.

And then Yama is very happy and he's going to teach Vedantanao now.

But before that, he makes some preliminary observations about the nature of the spiritual path,

about spiritual knowledge, about the student, about the teacher.

So this is what is going on now.

This will go on up to the 12th, 13th mantra in this section.

So far we see, Yama has made a very important observation that these two things come to us all the

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