नैषा तर्केण मतिरापनेया
प्रोक्तान्येनैव सुज्ञानाय प्रेष्ठ ।
यां त्वमापः सत्यधृतिर्बतासि
त्वादृङ्नोभूयान्नचिकेतः प्रष्टा ॥ ९
NAISH TAKAREN MATIRAPANEYA
PROKTA NYENA EVA SUDNYANAY|
YAM TWAMAPAH SATYADHRUTIR BATA ASI
TRADRNK NO BHUYAR NACHIKETAH PRASHTHA ||9
THIS KNOWLEDGE IS NOT OBTAINED BY IMAGINATION OR ARGUMENT,BUT IT IS EASY
TO UNDERSTAND WHEN TAUGHT BY A TEACHER.
O DEAR.YOU ARE FIXED IN.TRUTH.MAY WE HAVE CURIOUS ONE LIKE YOU
NACHIKETA||9
This Shloka is continuation of the previous ones and the Lord of Death is giving compliments to Nachiket. One may think that when Nachiket had to come to Lord of death and gave up all the temptations that were offered by Lord of Death, in trying to avoid to answer the question, the answer must be complicated and difficult to understand.
So the Yama is telling that the answer is easy to understand.We have often seen the discussions when the questions related to religion comes in.Everybody has their opinion and then there are people who think that the religion is very mystic and they don't want to be bothered with the answers. There is another point that is made here. This may be subtle ,but important to know.We normally we think that we KNOW with our mind or Intellect. But the Knowledge that we are talking about CAN NOT BE UNDERSTOOD by mind or intellect. The SELF or the Atman is something which can not be observed . So the changes in mind - sad , happy, can be perceived and so it is not part of Self . The same thing is about Intelligence. We can see how it changes and so ANYTHING THAT CAN BE OBSERVED IS NOT SELF . So to know SELF one can not use mind or intellect. And may be if we can understand or observe anything,then it is not SELF .
So we are told here that it is not understood by argument or usual means of understanding any subject, as anything that can be understood that way is not SELF.
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