उत्तिष्ठत जाग्रत
प्राप्य वरान्निबोधत ।
क्षुरस्य धारा निशिता दुरत्यया
दुर्गं पथस्तत्कवयोवदन्ति ॥ १4
UTISHAT JAGRAT
PRAPYA VARAN NIBODHAT |
KSHURASYA DHARA NISHITA DURATYAYA
DURGAM PATHAS TAT KAVAYO VADANTI ||14
ARISE ,AWAKE HAVING ACHIEVED THE GREAT,LEARN THE-UNDERSATND AS THE EDGE
OF THE BLADE IS SHARP AND THE PATH IS DIFFICULT TO CROSS AND
HARD TO TREAD -ACCORODING TO THE WISE ||14
This Shlok is continuation of the theme and a warning to the student. If you remember when Nachiketa asked to know about what happens after the death, the Yama was not willing to tell him and offered many other mortal options. That was due to the fact that to KNOW the answer is not easy and the path is hard. If some one asks for the recipe of cooking rice ,one could answer it quickly as it is easy . If one wants to make some special desert then one might say Don't bother asking , just buy from ristorantes as it is hard to make it .Since Yama had agreed to tell Nachiket about life after death, he is telling that it is not like sitting in easy chair and watching You tube video.. So he is telling the student to Stand up and be Awake. One does not lie down and do the action and so arise means get ready for the action and awake is not regular sleep but the sleep that we are all in where we are mesmerized by this mortal world . So we are in some sort of sleep and we are seeing things which are like a dream and the Yama is telling us to be ready for action and also wake up.
But at the same time he is telling us that according to wise men , the path to achieve the goal is very narrow and is like sharp edge of the razor blade. KSHURA is the blade that used to be put on arrow in those times, So that has to be sharp and so it is very difficult to treat the path. So when one has a chance of learning this from a Teacher or Guru one is forewarned about the difficulties . So just having a GURU is not enough, but after one has gotten the Guru , he has to be ready for the action and be awake and tread the sharp path .
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