KATHPANISHAD ADHYAY 1 -CHAPTER 1- SHLOKA 2 AND 3

KATHOPANISHADA - CHAPTER 1 -SHLOKA 2 AND 3

          तं ह कुमारं सन्तं दक्षिणासु नीयमानसु श्रद्धा आविवेश सः अमन्यत ----२ 

                        TAM HA KUMARAM SANTAM DAKSHINASU NIYAMANASU 

                                       SHRADHHA  AVIVESH SAH AMANYAT ----2

 

           पीतोदका जग्घतृणा दुग्धदोहा निरीन्द्रियाः अनन्दा नाम ते लोकास्तान्स गच्छति ता ददत ---३ 

   

             PITODAKA JAGGHATRUNA DUDGHDOHA  NIRINDRAYAH ANANDA NAM TE 

                                                 LOKASTANS GACHHATI TA DADAT 

              WHEN HIS FATHER STARTED GIVING DAKSHINA (PRESENTS)  
      
                                           HE(NACHIKET) WAS CONCERNED  ---2   

                                                        AND HE THOUGHT

THESE COWS HAVE DRANK WATER FOR AND COMPLETED GIVING MILK AND,HAVE 

EATEN  GRASS FOR LAST TIME  AND ARE BARREN AND ONE GIVES THEM AS   

                           DAKSHINA IN YADNYA ATTAIN THE JOYLESS WORLDS----3

     This the beginning of the story. As mentioned in past all the Upanishads there is story and question answers. So we are told of a story in this one . The Nachiketa is the young boy who is not an ordinary boy who spends time in playing and wasting time in childhood mischief He has studies the scriptures  and he is evolved  and has basic understandings and also has Faith in scriptures  and so he is not happy with the behaviour of the father The father is not a fool.But he is man of ordinary thoughts. We all behave in this way many a times. When we donate to charity, we tend to not donate Good things . We donate things that are not useful to us or have some defects etc. So this father is suppose to Donate or give up things that he owns and are USEFUL.Instead he is donating the cows that have lost the usefulness -they are barren and are not going to produce calf  and will not give milk . But they will need food and water . The idea of doing YADNYA is to give up or sacrifice what we own . So we are suppose to give up things that are valuable  and are useful to us. In Fire ceremony  or Yadnya the host or THE YAJAMAN says इदं न मम। This means 'This does not belong to me ".So we need to have the feeling that this universe was created by the God  and so It Came out of God  and so it all belongs to HIM.So we are offering HIS things to HIM  and so the things that we are offering are not truly belonging to us . But it is difficult to have that kind of thought . So this Fatjher is doing what most of us do. But the son who is observing the whole things is not ordinary. So he is concerned of the welfare of the father . He is not going to get any credit for such an action and he will not be in BETTER world..