In this day and age, in this country, who am i? I'm talking about the person hereh am i that's not the request. What am i ultimately? Is it only a body, a body mind? Or there is some eternal reality here? That's the quest. That's the one which will free us. So he asks this question, and he asks it in this way that we know about death: what lies beyond death?
Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches the Katha Upanishad, which is one of the most popular Upanishads. The scripture concerns the story of a young man who goes to the house of death to find out what happens after death. The reply describes the nature of reality and the meaning of life.