येयं प्रेतेविचिकित्सा मनुष्येऽ
अस्तित्वे के नायमस्तीति चैके ।
एतद्विद्यामनुशिष्टस्त्वयाऽहं
वराणामेष वरस्तृतीयः ॥ २0
YEYAM PRETE VICHIITSA MANUSHYE
ASTI ITI EKE NA AYAM ASTI ITI CHEKE |
ETAT VIDYA ANISHISHTA TWAYA
AHAM VARANAMESH VAR TRUTIY || 20
THERE IS DISCUSSION WHEN MAN (LIVING)DIES , SOME SAY HE IS THERE AND SOME
SAY IS NOT THERE .AS MY THIRD BOON I WOULD LIKE YOU KNOW FROM YOU||20
This the REAL question that will be answered in this UPANISHADA. What happens after the so called death of the physical body . No one thinks that dead body is a alive person . The discussion that occurs among the people that are still living physically as to when some one dies is ANYTHING left. As one can imagine there are various thoughts about life after death. Some feel this is it . There is no existence after physical body dies . On the other hand many believe that there is after life. The Vedic religion has reincarnation and other Abrahamic religions - Christianity , Judaism and Muslim religion have different thought process about existence after the death of physical body . The Atheist do not believe in life after death. So Nachiketa is asking his third boon and wants to know about the life after death and who could be the best teacher ,none other than God of Death - the YAMA.
There are many thoughts about the after life and we don't need to discuss them here . But something else to note is that Nachiketa has asked his Boon in order of what WE SHOULD behave In the first boon he asked for his family -he wanted to see his father happy ,In the second boon he asked for the welfare of the general public and when that is done then only he asked for the HIMSELF.
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