Vishnu - Nagesh D. Sonde

assimilation of enterprise and sense of Service in the social groups, Vaishyas and
Shudras too came to be included as oblation. Therefore, when the seer says that
Brahmins and Kshatriyas are food and Death is his sauce, what is meant is that to
God should one offer best of Wisdom and best of Valour as suggested by Krishna,
in Bhagavad Gita III.11), „dovaanBaavayatanaona to dovaa Baavayantu va: | prsprM Baavayant: Eaoya: prmavaaPsyaqa ||‟.
Surrendering (Death) of the fruits of one enterprise and labour to God would
become like sauce. When a human being too much under the influence of senses
becomes confounded by such choice, then God creates tremendous impact on his
mind he avoids seeing go on his face, fearing that all that he holds dear in this
empirical world will be required to be surrendered. Therefore, Death here is not
extermination and extinction but submission and surrender of one‟s individual
identity at the altar of the universal identity, death being the ultimate abidance.
[it kazkaopinaYad\ BaaYyao p`qamaaQyaayao iWtIyaavailla
Thus ends the Second Section of the First Chapter of Kathakopanishad.
Upanishad :
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p`qama AQyaaya tRtIya vailla
First Chapter - Section III
?tM ipbantaO saukRtsya laaoko gauhaM p`ivaYTaO prmao praQao- |
CayaatpaO ba`*maivadao vadint pHcaagnayaao yao ca i~Naicakota: || 1 ||
The Cosmic Order revels in the world of noble deeds, entering within the cave,
dispensing the two supreme forms - enlightened and the unenlightened. So declare
the knowers of wisdom who have tended the five sacrificial fires and performed the
three-fold Nachiketagni.
ya: saoturIjaanaanaaM AxarM ba``*ma tt\ prma\ |
ABayaM ittIYa-taM parM naaicakotM Sakomaiha || 2 ||
That which joins the sacrificial performances, the immutable Brahman, supreme
and unafraid, we are capable of being aware of the essence within Nachiketagni.
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