KATHOPANISHAD - ADHYAY 1- VALLI-1
KATHOPANISHAD
ADHYAY 1 VALLI -1
USHAN HA WAI VAJASHRAVASAH SARWVEDASAM DADAU
TASHA HA NACHIKETA NAM PUTRA AS
ONCE (UPON A TIME)SON OF VAJASHAVAS DESIROUS (OF HEAVEN) GAVE ALL THAT
HE PASSED (IN YAGNYA).HE HAD A SON NAMED NACHIKETA
This is the first VALLI or first Shloka. There are 5 sections or Adhyay. The Upanishads start with prayer and has a story and the story has a teaching . So in this beginning Shloka we are told that there was Brahman who wanted to do Yadnya. The Yadnya is sacrificial ceremony in which the Host or the Yajaman does a SANKALP. The Sankalp is the reason for which the Yadnya is done . The true meaning of the Yadnya is not just the ritual but also the sacrifice . So one has to not just put in Ghee and some food and other stuff but to do it with 'FEELING' that THIS IS NOT MINE - IDAM NA MAM. But most of the time people do the ceremony. They have desires to GET MORE material things and the attention is somewhere else. Sometimes people have invited people for dinner and so the attention is in the management of the part that follows the YADNYA .I am not sure if in past how these things were done.
So in this starting we are told that the Host or the YAJAMAN is VAJASHRAV .He has desire to be in heaven after the death and so he is doing the Yadnya . In past the life was divided in 4 parts.Child has a period of 'learning' and that is called BRAMHACHARASHRAM .(ASHRAM is a compartment of life or a place where one stays . Brahmacharya is celibacy)Then when he is capable of making money he marries and that part is called GRUHASTASHRAM . Then he has family and then he enters VANAPRASTHASHRAM - semi retitement where he is spending more time in devotion to GOD and less in day to day activity of making money and taking care of family. Then further down the road he enters SANYASHRAM . In this last stage he owns NOTHING and he gives up or is suppose to leave all the material things.
So in this SHLOKA we are told that a person named Vajashrav decides to do ritual or Yadnya , so that he goes to heaven and that he has a son named Nachiket.
ADHYAY 1 VALLI -1
USHAN HA WAI VAJASHRAVASAH SARWVEDASAM DADAU
TASHA HA NACHIKETA NAM PUTRA AS
ONCE (UPON A TIME)SON OF VAJASHAVAS DESIROUS (OF HEAVEN) GAVE ALL THAT
HE PASSED (IN YAGNYA).HE HAD A SON NAMED NACHIKETA
This is the first VALLI or first Shloka. There are 5 sections or Adhyay. The Upanishads start with prayer and has a story and the story has a teaching . So in this beginning Shloka we are told that there was Brahman who wanted to do Yadnya. The Yadnya is sacrificial ceremony in which the Host or the Yajaman does a SANKALP. The Sankalp is the reason for which the Yadnya is done . The true meaning of the Yadnya is not just the ritual but also the sacrifice . So one has to not just put in Ghee and some food and other stuff but to do it with 'FEELING' that THIS IS NOT MINE - IDAM NA MAM. But most of the time people do the ceremony. They have desires to GET MORE material things and the attention is somewhere else. Sometimes people have invited people for dinner and so the attention is in the management of the part that follows the YADNYA .I am not sure if in past how these things were done.
So in this starting we are told that the Host or the YAJAMAN is VAJASHRAV .He has desire to be in heaven after the death and so he is doing the Yadnya . In past the life was divided in 4 parts.Child has a period of 'learning' and that is called BRAMHACHARASHRAM .(ASHRAM is a compartment of life or a place where one stays . Brahmacharya is celibacy)Then when he is capable of making money he marries and that part is called GRUHASTASHRAM . Then he has family and then he enters VANAPRASTHASHRAM - semi retitement where he is spending more time in devotion to GOD and less in day to day activity of making money and taking care of family. Then further down the road he enters SANYASHRAM . In this last stage he owns NOTHING and he gives up or is suppose to leave all the material things.
So in this SHLOKA we are told that a person named Vajashrav decides to do ritual or Yadnya , so that he goes to heaven and that he has a son named Nachiket.
