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Articles: Devotion | Nachiketa and Yama
- Mr. Venkata Ramanamurty Mallajosyula
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Death replied: Duty is one, delight another, these twain draw a man in diverse paths. Well is it for him that chooses duty, he goes astray who seeks delight. The twain wisdom and folly, point to diverse ends. Well has Nachiketa spoken, seeking wisdom, not goaded by desires. Even the learned abide in delusion, blind lead by the blind. While to the fool is not revealed. This world and no other, he thinketh; and so cometh again and again in to my power.
“But he is great who tells of the One, of whom the many may never hear, whom the many though they hear, may not know, a marvel is who knoweth the Brahman. Untold is he, no path leads to him.
“Having heard and well grasped him with insight, attaining to subtle One, a mortal is gladdened and rejoices for good cause Wide is the gate for Nachiketa, methinks.”
Nachiketa answered :
“Other man good, other than evil, other than formless or than forms, other than past or future-declare thou that”.
Death resumed:
“That goal of sacred wisdom, of goodly works and faith, is Om! This word is Brahman, the supreme. He who doth comprehend this word, what so ever he desires is his. ”For that Singer is not born, nor does he ever die. He came not any whence nor any thing was he. Unborn, eternal everlasting, ancient; unslain is he, though the body is slain. ”If the slayer thinks he slays, or the slain deems he is slain, they err. That neither slayeth nor is slain,
“Smaller than small, greater than great, that Self indwells in every creature’s heart.
“Sitting, he travels far, lying, he speedeth every where, who knoweth him hath no more grief.
‘This Self is not obtainable by explanation, nor by intellection, nor by much hearkening to scripture, whom he chooses, to him that is revealed. But he that knoweth that all things are Self, for him what grief, what delusion lingers, knowing all things are That One?
When all desires that linger in the heart are driven forth, then mortal is made immortal, he becometh Brahman.
When every knot of the heart is loose then doth he win immortal Being. Thus far the teaching.”
Thus having learnt the wisdom taught by Death, and finding Brahman, Nachiketa was freed from death. So verily shall he be free who knoweth that Supreme Self.
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