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The YAMA is reciprocating in a fine manner. He is hinting at that any anxiety in the mind disturbs one’s sleep at night. Do not we see this happening around us? The YAMA granting Nachiketa’s prayer by saying that his father would be able to sleep happily in the night after seeing his son returned form the clutch of death and of course Nachiketa, in the first place, will be recognized in the same way as before. That means that Nachiketa will be returned to his own place after meeting The YAMA unharmed making a pleasant surprise to his father.

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When he left for THE YAMA, Nachiketa felt that his father is repenting for sending him impulsively to a place of no return. So Nachiketa, by his first boon, is trying to bring pleasure to his father. He felt that to please the ancestors is the foremost duty of a person. THE YAMA can send him back to his father in any form and shape but in that case father would not be able to recognize him to be his son Nachiketa and that anxiety of ‘what has happened to my child’ would not end. So the kid is praying for his return in intact and unhurt form, because after facing the death, when one slips out of the clutch of death, it is expected that the death would leave a sign of its bite on him. Nachiketa is praying that no physical difference on him would be there when he would return to his father, because that too would also grieve his father. He prays for his return to his own place where his father would be very happy by seeing him and all his anxiety will calm down. The last clause he added because even a little scar on the body of a child would cause the parents anxious. He wants his father to be truly happy to see him back. We will see latter that how uninterested Nachiketa is in materialistic happiness. But what kind a kid he is that even standing in front of death he is finding a way to bring pleasure to his father! Had he not been concern about his father’s happiness, he would have simply pray for safe return and go for the next boon.

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Nachiketa, in KATHOUPANISHAD has been portrayed as one of the most dignified, sober and diligent kid, who is quiet a gentleman refrained himself from entering the residence of YAMA even after requested by the inmates of the house because YAMA himself was not present then. Nahiketa did not know how he would be accepted by YAMA, so he did not enter the house neither took any food or water and waited for YAMA to come. After three days when YAMA returned and found a seeker of ultimate truth is waiting for him without having food and water it embarrassed him because a guest, specially a seeker of truth waiting for him for three consecutive day and night at his house without taking food and water itself is very embarrassing because it appears that the owner of the house lacking the quality to extain the hospitality. To compensate, YAMA offered three boons to him.

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Those who can not adore the seeker of the absolute truth, do posses the view of life with which the truth of life would not appear in its true form rather illusions would appear to be true. And people would run after that. As those people not interested to achieve the absolute truth, it appears to them that seeking that is a kind of waste of time and energy. So every action they take, never take them to the divine happiness. Whatever they hope, whoever they friends with, however they groom their kids, never give them bliss. Someone may contradict saying that lots of people try to groom their children so that they earn good when grow up and live happily and can do that too. But in that case they remain oblivious to notice that the upbringing of the kids gradually increases the expectation from them too. And whenever the kids fail to meet any of those expectations, a pang of dissatisfaction hits the parents. He who not seeks the absolute truth can never get detached from the earthly expectation and so can not judge and act dispassionately, neither can get the bliss, so how can they be called successful?

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After reaching the house of YAMA, Nachiketa had to waiting for YAMA for three days, because YAMA was not present. While waiting he declined all request for food & drinks, because he did not know how the owner of the house would accept him. The inmates of the house of YAMA could understand that the kid was in search for the absolute truth and so he was most adorable and respectable person to them. That is why, when YAMA came, the inmates of his house told him to extend a gesture of hospitality and respect to the guest. A seeker of truth deserved to be treated most respectfully. He is like fire, so to calm him down one should extend his respect and hospitality to him just as one calms down the fire with water.

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B1C1V6: Father was not serious about the sacrifice of his son to YAMA – THE GOD OF DEATH, but Nachiketa is. He is consoling his father by saying that we have to look back as well to look forward too and considering the situation dispassionately we should step accordingly. Death too should not scare one from doing what is ought to be done. Life is a continuous process. All living thing born and grow and die and rot. So meeting the death one day is inevitable so not a big deal to Nachiketa.

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B1C1V5: In normal course dying of a creature is the end of its use as a living being. So THE GOD of DEATH always gets the things which has no use as a living being. Nachiketa is contemplating that he is very good at some things and mediocre at some but not bad at any thing, so how he would be useful to THE GOD of DEATH. From hereon he is becoming serious living all of his childish inhibitions making him worth visiting Yama THE GOD of DEATH.