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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.

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B1C1V4: Nachiketa thinks that he himself is a precious possession of his father and should also be sacrificed. So naïve he is that he is curious to know that as an offering, to whom his father would give him. To his father, the proposition itself is so bogus that it is not worth responding. This proposition, on the other hand, is very much rational and obvious to Nachiketa. Father got irritated with his repeated stupid question because no common person can plan to sacrifice his own children as a part of a YAGGA. So irritated he is that he tells his son that he will offer him to DEATH.

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B1C1V3: What he is seeing and thinking is that the condemned and unusable things are being offered. Had the offerings take a person to Heaven, the quality of the goods being offered, would rather take a person to a place of unhappiness. Because this action proves that the person doing this is not a broad minded one. The main flair of the sacrifice is to grow detachment about the things sacrificed but here just the reverse is happening. The attachments to the things are so high that the person doing the YAGGA is not being able to get rid of involvement with the things sacrificed. Unless an aversion from the materialistic things have been achieved, this YAGGA if fruitless.

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B1C1V2: Nachiketa is very sensible and sensitive kid. When he saw the things that are being offered to the Brahmmhans as the mark of sacrifice he started thinking about the reason for this offerings. In normal course kids do not give importance to this things but Nachiketa is above average. Contemplation and rationality are conspicuous in his character. He is a kind of boy who dose not succumb to any inhibition and emotion, rather look upon to all events very rationally.

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B1C1V1: In THE VEDAS we are being taught the knowledge of life and to understand that properly we are also taught to practice rituals. The idea behind is to practicing the rituals gradually lead us to the understanding the truth of life.
To achieve THE SUPREAM TRUTH one has to get detached from everything. To grasp this knowledge, one of the methods is to sacrifice best of one’s belongings. By doing so the concerned person is expected to attain the desired detachment from all of his earthly belongings and thus become free from all illusions and ready to conceive the absolute truth. To whom those earthly belongings would go while sacrificing? The answer is the person who is searching the absolute and has attained a mental quality where receiving some attractive earthly items do not deviate him from his firm detachment.
When the teaching is not properly understood and the rituals get more priority and the person who has to receive the sacrificed items is looked upon, the person concern start contemplating to follow the rituals of sacrifice miserly considering that to be a mere rule to follow and thus refrain himself from sacrificing the best of his belonging.
A father who has a son named NACHIKETA is doing that YAGGA of sacrificing of everything.