19. Katha Upanishad | Mantras 1.2.23 - 25 | Swami Sarvapriyananda

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Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches the Katha Upanishad, one of India's most revered texts which is also a part of the Vedas. It is a collection of philosophical poems representing a conversation between the sage Naciketas and Yama (god of death). They discuss the nature of Atman, Brahman and Moksha(liberation).

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0:00.0	Ome Sahanavavu,
0:07.0	Saha'naubhunaktu,
0:10.0	Sahhiraeim Karavahawahy,
0:13.0	Tejas finnawadi,
0:15.0	Tamas, Tumavidwishawah
0:19.0	Om shanth, shanty, shanty.
0:23.6	May the Lord protect us both,
0:26.6	teacher and the taught together.
0:28.6	May the Lord protect us both by giving us the results of knowledge.
0:33.6	May we attain vigor together.
0:35.6	Let what we study be illuminating.ating maybe not cavail at each other
0:41.3	Ome peace peace
0:45.3	we're studying the Kato Opinishad and the dialogue between the little boy Natchiketaeta, who's the student, and the teacher is the
0:56.7	awesome Lord of Death Yama, who is teaching Nachiketa about the nature of the self, about what we
1:05.7	truly are. And then in the last few verses we have seen in 21 and 22, he has used 20, 20, 21, 21, 22,
1:18.4	paradoxical language, smaller than the smallest, vaster than the vastest, and located within our own minds,
1:30.7	then that which goes everywhere,
1:33.5	although it is seated in one place,
1:37.7	when it lies down and it spreads everywhere,
1:43.1	who can know this extraordinary entity which is with joy and beyond
1:50.8	joy also? Madhah, Madhamedam Devam. It is without a body and yet it is existing in our
1:58.0	bodies within this very body, this vast self.
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