The first condition for being happy in the world is you must be young. The Upanishad says that and most of the people were not young, they are not young. So most of the audience was middle-aged or older. Such a person has the maximum possible human happiness. Just imagine having that kind of position in the world. How many people have got it in the world, in all of human history? Maybe in each generation, one or two persons might come close to it for a while. That hundred times, thousand times, ten thousand times worldly happiness, you will get it right now. It develops a calculus of happiness going up to one followed by twenty zeros of the
Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches the Katha Upanishad, one of India's most revered texts which is also a part of the Vedas. It is a collection of philosophical poems representing a conversation between the sage Naciketas and Yama (god of death). They discuss the nature of Atman, Brahman and Moksha(liberation).