3. Katha Upanishad | Mantras 1.1.4 - 8 | Swami Sarvapriyananda 

Really, THANK YOU SO MUCH to Swami Ji for allowing these classes to be transmitted openly to all 🙏😊 and to you for this immense and transcendental service ... may God bless our paths 🕉❤ Om Namah Shivaya

Pronam Maharaj.

Om shanti

Thank you Swami Ji 🌺

Foxes and jackals? Hah! Love that! Will use that line from now on. Who says Advaita can be of no use? Great lesson, looking forward to next week. Bahut shukriya! 🕉️🤙🌺

Pranaam Swamiji, recent studies have proved that Vedas are much much older than 5000 years ago. 1500 bc is opinion of Western historians. Naturally, they don't want to admit that Sanatana Dharma is much much older.

The realisation that it's all a dream - is itself a part of that dream. Therefore, that realisation isn't an escape from the dream. No matter what efforts you take to escape the dream inside that dream, all those are just the parts of that very dream. Therefore let's admit the truth: there's no escape.

हरी: ऊॅं तत्सत् 🙏🏻 श्रीरामकृष्णार्पणमस्तु🙏🏻 Namaskar Swami Sarvapriyanandaji 🙏🏻 Thank you Vedanta New York for sharing this 🙏🏻

I'm really blessed l found this monk at this time of my life, gratitude to him,l am soaking these mantras into my conciousness knowing that those mantras are vibrating at some level and eventually helping me to learn to chant as l have always loved the holy tradition in pujas,thankyou so so so much,england,🙏🙏🙏

pronam swamiji

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Waiting eagerly for volume 80 of Geeta very long time passed 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna

You are a wonderful human who I met during turbulent times, during times of suffering (upto certain extent I am able to get rid of that second arrow 😊) especially during the corona period. I spent hours and hours listening you learning and picking up alot of things which are worth more than a lottery ticket. The senior monk who named you got it correct when he said meant sarwa+priya+aananda indeed you are dear to all and blissful in nature. You are a friend whom I never met but one that made a significant impact. I hope you will be able to guide and help many people and I wish you all the very best. I saw a thumbnail of a video which u did about Jesus I think so probably tomorrow I'll get to know more about him :) best wishes to you from Sri Lanka 🙏

Thank you Swamiji for changing my life ….for introducing me to this wonderful world of Vedanta….heartfelt gratitude swamiji 🙏

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Swamiji🙏. This discourse is indeed for people like us. In the story the truth is embedded, and your very very simple explanation to each and every word makes it still more interesting. Softly and steadily you are making us to take the worthwhile journey. Pranam at your feet🙏. Thank you Swamiji.

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Thank you Swamiji and Vedenta NY team for presenting these wonderful and very well organized events . It’s no mean feat ! In this talk, towards the end, Maharaj perceptively mentions that the texts like Mahabharat and Ramayan teach us to put Vedanta into practise in this -messy - world. I am going to study these texts again with that thought in mind. Thanks 🙏

Thank you Swamiji and VNYS. The takeaway from this lecture was Truth and Eternal values. I am blessed to hear the truth about TRUTHS. Pranam

goldmine of knowledge. so so grateful. thank you so much for making it available for us all on youtube

Thank you for these teachings

Pranam swami ji

Appart from the wonderful talk the Q and A @ 58.00 is beautiful. 🙏🙏

Namaskaram Swamiji. Thankyou need your blessings always 🙏

Thank you Swamiji!

Pranam maharaj🙏🙏blessed as always to hear you🙏🙏

Pranaam Swami ji.

Pranams Swamji

Pranams Swamiji

🙏 HARI Om swamiji 🙏

प्रणाम स्वामीजी !

Pranam Guruji 🙏

With due reverence to Vedanta, are we turning Mother India into a defeatist nation?....I am a refugee in my OWN country....Even today, Mother India faces survival issues....How do we make use of our Vedantic/Upanishad wisdom to ensure that Mother India survives & prospers with dignity?...We cannot ignore the sermon of Krishna to Arjun in Kurukshetra battlefield....AUM.

Very good explanation Swamiji 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 awesome knowledge in Upanishads 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Thanks for the classes. I was searching for a lecture on Katha Upanishad and found this series of teachings. And I thougth tô mu self: How IS It possível 40 hours of sepeech on this subject. It Will be Very boring 🤭. For my good surprise It s jus wonderful and delicious. So thanks from my ❤️🙏

Thank you

JAY RAMAKRISHNA.

Abundant knowledge

Wonderful you Swamiji are ✅ OK

The one line that made me happy to hear " when to choose between integrity and success choose integrity and be poor" I've always heard otherwise that at workplace we need to give in or never get to high position but my conscience never allowed it.

If I can make whoever is in my life to feel I am Ok & You are ok , World will be filled with Love n Peace . Thank you Swami Sarvapriyanandaji for your eternal teachings n insight. 🌷🙏🏼

Thank u .

My view on the dating of upanishad as mentioned by Swami is different. Upanishad cannot be just 5000 years back because the Kurukshetra was itself was around 5,300 years back and Ramayana was over 10000 years before Krishna. Upanishads are far far before that. So you cannot even approximately date the upanishads or vedas.

11:06 High Self Esteem

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My dream is to Meet you in real life 🙇🙇 Huge Respect for you....

0:00 Peace Chant with meaning 0:50 Recap oṃ uśan ha vai vājaśravasaḥ sarvavedasaṃ dadau . tasya ha naciketā nāma putra āsa .. 1.. tam̐ ha kumāram̐ santaṃ dakṣiṇāsu nīyamānāsu śraddhāviveśa so’manyata .. 2.. pītodakā jagdhatṛṇā dugdhadohā nirindriyāḥ . anandā nāma te lokāstān sa gacchati tā dadat .. 3.. sa hovāca pitaraṃ tata kasmai māṃ dāsyasīti . dvitīyaṃ tṛtīyaṃ tam̐ hovāca mṛtyave tvā dadāmīti .. 4.. usan - desiring results 3:30 shraddha aavivesha - foundational to all kinds of higher life - faith, confidence - aastikya buddhi - there is something great in it another aspect of shraddha - self confidence - not only are the teachers and textx great, i too can do it 5:35 Krishna tells arjuna in bhagavad geeta 8:00 Shankaracharya’s Commentary 8:49 Sanskrit verses 10:00 Sanskrit verses 10:28 Sanskrit verses 10:50 bahūnāmemi prathamo bahūnāmemi madhyamaḥ | kim̐ svidyamasya kartavyaṃ yanmayādya kariṣyati || 5 || 12:25 Nachiketa’s Self Esteem v. Modern day need for validation 13:38 Transactional Analysis I’m not okay. You’re not okay. - Worst position. I’m not okay. You’re okay. - Inferiority Complex I’m okay. You’re not okay. - Superiority Complex I’m okay. You’re okay. - Best position. 17:50 Shankaracharya’s Words 18:18 Sri Ramakrishna Says - Truth 19:18 Best Disciple, Middling Disciple, Worst Disciple - Sub Commentary of Anandagiri also known as the TIkAkAra 20:30 anupaśya yathā pūrve pratipaśya tathāpare । sasyamiva martyaḥ pacyate sasyamivājāyate punaḥ ॥ 6 ॥ 21:25 Shankaracharya’s Commentary 24:10 Shankaracharya’s Commentary 24:42 French Philosopher Foucault’s Felazia - Something which I tell you which is damaging to me - That is truth telling 26:20 Sri Ramakrishna Says - Person who can admit to one’s own faults 26:52 Shankaracharya’s Commentary 27:03 Monk Says on False Witness - Shraddha - Asthikya Buddhi 29:20 To the man of truth his words are like written on rock. To the one who's false his words are like written on flowing water. 29:45 Story from Bhagavatam - Do not depend on the love of an unethical person. 31:15 Shankaracharya’s Commentary 32:08 Difficult to practice in this world? Integrity v. Success? 33:20 Corn in the Field Example 33:44 Shankaracharya’s Commentary 36:50 Prof. of Corporate Ethics Says (On telling truth) 37:40 Swami Vivekananda on ideal society 39:43 Shankaracharya’s Commentary 40:14 Lord Sri Rama’s truth telling 40:33 Story of Workshop on Nyaya at Jadhavpur University - Navya Nyaya - Tarkachudamani of Kangesha lived 1000 years ago Anjaneya Shastri of Banaras - Logic to be studied with Vedanta 43:55 Story of Lord Rama and Gautama on Logical solution to Exile 48:06 Story of Nachiketa continued 48:47 Thousands of Gods in Hinduism? No One God - Saguna Brahman Vedantasara - Maya Upahita Chaitanya - Pure consciousness associated with Maya - only one 50:36 Devas - Literal meaning - Bright ones - Agni - god of fire Vivasva - god of death 53:30 vaiśvānaraḥ praviśatyatithirbrāhmaṇo gṛhān । tasyaitām̐ śāntiṃ hara vaivasvatodakam ॥ 7 ॥ 55:05 āśāpratīkśe saṃgatam̐ sūnṛtāṃ ceṣṭāpūrte putrapaśūm̐śca sarvān । etadvṛṅkte puruṣasyālpamedhaso yasyānaśnanvasati brāhmaṇo gṛhe ॥ 8 ॥ Consequence of Treating a Brahmana Guest Badly If in anyone's house a Brahmana guest abides without food, that Brahmana destroys hope and expectation, the results of holy association and sweet discourse, sacrifices and charities, suns and cattle - all these of that man of little intelligence. So, basically all your good karma is lost if you mistreat a guest. 56:30 QnA

Thank you so much swami ji for explaining things in such an easy manner, swamiji I also request you to pls start the gita translation series again we have completed till chapter 5

Namaste swami ji. Can I attend the live streaming?

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God knows from which graveyard she puzzled him together according to a memory of me she keeps holding on her mind alive

And she says: Come have a look, he looks like you, made of you

But is it possible that Nachiketas is talking about going to death like every body else that also will go and reasoning about that, how he is now going ahead and amongst many. At the head of many I go, and I go in the midst of many. What may be the work of Death that today must be done trough me? Remember how men of old past away and how those of days to come will also past away. A mortal ripens like corn and like corn he is born again. I think that he was in some kind of cave or pit enclosed. Because Yama in my language (Serbian that shares the origin with Sanskrit) means a dark pit or cave. "Jagnje" is the word for lamb. Which was exclusively used for sacrifices. "Um" means the mind, from the goddess Uma who was the first to know the Brahman and only by the mind can He be known. And there is 50% of terms that my language and Sanskrit share. Some study says 60% with Bengali strangely enough. Kutija means box and the house. Dva para means dva para two pairs, The fourth - chetvrta in Serbian, and I know many, many more. Jesus also spent 3 days and nights in Earths belly in the Kingdome of Death before being restricted from the spirit. After Nachiketas was done with Yama he also was immortal and by his ritual people went to heaven. Talk about similarities. I always believed Abraham sad his new name after GOD called him was Aham Bram. That the spirituality from the old time of the sages of old, pored into Judaism. That Judaism was established from the same GOD view and the worldview as The Vedanta. But Vedanta was always much closer to the original source of ancient sages about whom bought The Upanishads and The Tao Te Ching are talking about, and Judaism was far away. "I Am The I Am-ness" is the name of God that HE introduced himself to Moses. Come on.

in the surface level its feels boring, but just paying a bit attention the words become alive and they say the reality of this world, and interesting thing I understand is that things are not new to me may be because they are real timeless truth

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People want truth but can't handle it

Oh another one comes up telling me he is my son and I am god-father, how wonderful, maybe I shall care for him and pay his mother a monthly income to bring him up

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I know that I'm not me, that there is no me and that everything is Maya. This knowledge is intellectual and sometimes I really feel in that way but it's not a constant state, how do I reach Moksha as a permanent state? Thank you

Whats the era of Kotho Upanisad , Is it of the later part of Vedic era ? As we know there were no Concept of Heaven OR Hell in the Vedic era. How Nachiketa developed that thought in Mind .

Perhaps one way to reconcile the Nachiketa narrative in the Katha Upanishad with logic is to posit it as a lucid dream experience of either Nachiketa or his father. While we must recognize that the narrative's depiction of an in-person conversation between Nachiketa and Yamaraja is just a teaching vehicle and subservient to the teaching which, as a pramana, must be subject to thorough logical scrutiny as part of our manana, arguably the depiction itself can be supported by logic as well.

Then gaudiya sampadriya also teach bhagavdam does it mean that iskco is teachings advait vedanta

Guruji I need to get in touch with u.

Which publication book used in this course???

Isn’t shraddha akin to devotion?

For you. You are not the body and mind you are Eternal Spirit trapped in the body, you have forgotten over many incarnations. The Matrix is your own bio computer brain machine that keeps You in the illusion of being a physical Being in a physical world via the nervous system and the five senses. Meditation is putting the body and mind to sleep but staying Awake and Alert inside so you can re experience your Self as Eternal Spirit again, if you remain in this state after Meditation its called Nirvana, Samadhi, The TAO, Born again, (jesus) , SELF Realization Yogananda, Satori, Inner Witness (Krishnamurti), Universal Mind, Obtaining the golden fleece Greek mythology, Eden etc etc all the same.💕

Kothai kotha bole.

It’s like politically correct way of saying…. 😂. Adi Shankara was a phenomenon and seems to me, he’s not done yet.

Otherwise he would not be the difference between male and female AS son daughter of

can completely skip this video nothing important

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