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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.