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8. Katha Upanishad | Mantras 21 - 24 | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

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Yama, the Lord of Death, Is One of Those Gods

In the kano penishat, which we will do later, in the cana, panisha, you find the gods are puzzled by the nature of ultimate reality. And then brahman, that strange being, he throws down a piece of straw and says, burn this. Nothing happened. I the straw, wo wasn't even singed. So they admitted defeat. And so what's the point of that story? There's an inner meaning to that. The gods there symbolize the different powers of our indriers - power to see, hear, smell, taste, touch, to think, comprehend. None of them can objectify or capture brahman,. You can

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