Ome Sahanawavavutu, Saha'naubhannu Hanna bhattu,

Sahhiriam Karabhavah,

Tejasvinawadi, tamas, Tumavid bivishawahi.

Oam, shanty, shanty.

May the Lord protect us both, teacher and the taught together

by revealing knowledge.

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

May we attain vigor together.

Let what we study be illuminating.

May we not cavil at each other. Oh, peace, peace, peace. So we are studying the Kato Oppenishad.

And we were on the 24th verse.

Yes.

We all know what's been happening.

The little boy Natchiketa has gone to the house of death

and because he had to wait for Yama, the god of death,

for three days, three nights. Yama gives him, grants him three

booms to make up for making him wait. And Natchiketa asks for three wounds. Of course, we know the

final one is the one we are interested in, the knowledge of the self, spiritual knowledge. But first,

he asks that his father's anger go away,

that his worldly affairs be settled. His father no longer be mad at him, that he can go back

to the world and his father would love him once again. He's a little boy. So these are things

important to him. And he wants that to be settled first.

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