KATHOPNISHAD CHAPTER 2 SHLOKA 24

                                                                नाविरतोदुश्चरितान   

                                                               नाशान्तोनासमाहितः । 

                                                                नाशान्तमानसोवाऽपि 

                                                              प्रज्ञानेनैनमाप्नुयात् ॥ २4

                                                  NAVIRATO DUSHACHARITAN 

                                                    NASHATO  NASAMAHITAH|

                                                    NASHANTA MANASO VAPI

                                           PRADHYANEN ANAM APNYUYAT ||24

ONE WHOS HAS BAD CONDUCT AND WHOSE SENSES ARE NOT SUBDUCED  AND WHOSE 

MIND IS NOT QUIETENED AND CONCENTRATED,VAN NOT GET THIS BY KNOWLEDGE||24

    This is continuation of the previous shloka . Th Yama is telling Nachiketa as to why some people may not get to know the real SELF. So to start with he states that those who have bad behavior will not be able to get to know SELF. There are 2 reasons for that . If someone has had bad character - stealing infidelity ,then he will have the fear of getting caught  and so he cannot concentrate  his mind . So when he or she will try t concentrate his mind will be disturbed by the possibility of being caught. But he may also doing bad things to satisfy sense organ satisfaction or pleasures. So one who continues to be caught in the prisn of senses , he will not get any freedom . When one is attached to senses  and their pleasures, he is mistaking the physical body as SELF and does not understand that the SELF is different from the physical body and is not affected by physical bogy.

   So this is the chain reaction. Indulging in to sense organ pleasures , one is never satisfier  and the demad will continue to be there  and the same holds ue for wandering mind. When you are thinking od senses , one cannot concentrate . So unless and until the senses  and mind is not steady , we will never perceive the SELF . Just reading about it will not give us the real thing.

     The truth that is told here is not new. We all know that mediation and following the Yam and the Niyam in day to day life will lead to the ultimate goal being achieved. The reason for Yam and Niyama-which have been discussed in my PATANJALISUTRAYOGA .BLOGSPOT.COM, are to have better concentration and less distraction. If one indulges in sense pleasure may it be food , music, sex, alcohol or achieving great position or money - he will be thinking about the ways to get them  and the mind will be wavering and will  not be in position to concentrate . So here we are told that one will not get to SELF if he has not controlled or  subduced  senses and mind .