KathaUpanishad

etad vṛṅ
ṛṅkte puruṣasyālpamedhaso yasyānaśnan vasati brāhmaṇo gṛhe. (8)
āśā = thus
pratīkṣa = in expectation
saṅgatam = the fruit derived from the association with spiritual people;
sūnṛta = joy ,
iṣṭam = fruit produced by sacrifice,
pūrtam = fruit resulting from such charitable works
putra-paśūṃśca = sons and cattle;
sarvān etat (sarvam etat) = all this;
vṛṅkte = excludes (from)
puruṣasya alpa-medhasaḥ = from (i.e. of) a person of little intelligence;
yasya = in whose;
gṛhe = house;
brāhmaṇaḥ = a Brāhmana;
anaśnan = not-eating,
vasati = abides.
Hopes and expectations, the rewards of respecting the saints, the merit of his
kindness of words and deeds, the results of worthy sacrifices and wealth of
cattle and children, are all destroyed in the case of the ignorant man, in whose
house a Brahmin guest stays without taking food.
Hope and expectation, friendship and pleasant words, sacrifice and good deeds, sons
and cattle, this destroys, of the man of little wisdom in whose house a sacred guest
dwells without eating.
A man deficient in wisdom suffers his hopes, his sanguine expectation of success, his
improvement from associating with good men, the benefit which he might derive from
his affable conversation, and the fruits produced by performance of prescribed
sacrifices, and also by digging of wells and other pious liberal actions, as well as all his
sons and and cattle, to be destroyed, should a Brahman happen to remain in his house
without food.”
Three Boons Offered to Nachiketas
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