Ome Sahanavavutu,

Saha'naubhannabhavhā,

Sahhiraehyaam Karavahahy,

Tejasvinawadhi,

Tamsthumavidwhhhh Shanti, shanty, shanty, shanty.

May the Lord protect us both teacher and the taught together by revealing knowledge.

May the Lord protect us both by giving the results of knowledge to us.

May we attain vigor together.

Let what we study be invigorating. May we not cavil at each other. Oh, peace, peace, peace.

So we are studying the Kata Upanishad, the wonderful dialogue between Yama, the Lord of Death,

and the little boy, Natchiketa.

We were on Mantra number three. We had done three in the second chapter first section we had done

number three where it was said

yen a roopam rasm gandham shabddddhan, shaman, ete'enaiva bjana'i,

which means, this is a profound statement,

that by which do we have all experiences of life,

all our life, worldly, spiritual, philosophical, day-to-day activities, scientific, religious,

everything, even up to seeing God, experience, a mystical experiences, everything is made possible by one thing.

What is that? Consciousness. And he says, that by which you see, you hear, you smell, you taste, you touch, you think, you remember,

you desire, you feel the sense of self-existence, self-awareness.

So all of it, down to he says, every experience of life,

where there is a contact between two things.

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