Vishnu - Nagesh D. Sonde

and spiritual. Nachiketa reflects, reflection is the first step that leads one to
mediatation and enlightenment.
Temporal Life with which huma beings are conscously aware revolves on
empirical level in circles – morning and evening, day and night, life and death but
the spiritual Life with which huma beings are not conscious runs deep silently
without interruption. The Person seems to dies, but does not die but rises anew but
people are not conscious of this life revoving round and round living fragmentary,
disengaged moments in life.
Upanishad:
vaOSvaanar: p`ivaSa%yaitiqaba`a*mNaao gaRhana\ | tsyaOtaM SaaintM kuva-int hr vaOvasvataodkma\ || 7 ||
Verily like the blazing fire does a Brahmin guest enters a household. Such one
needs to be pacified with waters, O son of the Sun.
Bhashya :
“sa jagaama yamaM baalaao ba`*macaarI yamasya tu | p%nyaa saMpUjyamaanaao|ip jaga`ahaGyaa-idkM na tu | Aagato tu yamao
p`ah yamaM saaodkmaahr ||” - He, the child, reached Yama‟s abode but even though
honoured by his wife, did not accept felicitations from her. When Yama returned,
she told him to give food along with water.
Further Explanation:
Death has its own agenda, it comes when it has to come, no matter how
much one desires or desires not. Death does not come because one desires it to
come; death does not stop coming because one desires it not to come. So when
Nachiketa enters Death‟s abode, Death was not there. But that mattered little for
Nachiketa, though bode ill-timings for Yama, the deity presiding over death.
Becauae Nachiketa was verily the divine person, blazing with luminoius splendor,
who comes as Aitiqa – unshedulked guest. And Aitiqa is undoubted divine person –
“Aitiqa dovaao Bava |”. Therefore the seers says – “vaOSvaanar: p`ivaSa%yaitiqaba`a*mNaao gaRhana\ |”. He is to
be pacified with water. Else misfortune faals on the family and [possessions.
Upanishad:
AaSaap`tIxao saMgatM saUnaRtaM ca [YTapUto- pu~pSaUMSca savaa-na\ |
etd\ vaR=@to pu$YasyaalpmaoQasaao yasyaanaSnana\ vasait ba`a*maNaao gaRho || 8 ||
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