Many volumes have been written on the Upanishads by scholars and writers both western and eastern. Being the most ancient philosophic heritage of humanity, they have formed the subject matter of discussion and dissertations, exposition, and controversy for centuries.
In the past, philosophers like Schopenhauer, critics like Deussen, scholars like Macdonald, and orientalists like Prof. Max Muller have written exhaustively and very appreciatively about them. Recently eminent Indian scholars like Prof. Das Gupta, Prof. Ranade, and Dr. Radhakrishnan have devoted special attention to the Upanishads and explained the philosophy therein in a manner that is more familiar to the western mind.
Modern rishis and thinkers like Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo Ghose, who may be said to have digested the teaching of the Upanishads, have also written about them in their own beautiful and engaging phrase which is more easily understood by modern readers.
In this video, we're translating the Katha Upanishad, a scripture of the Vedic Rigveda. The Katha Upanishad is a long and complex scripture, and in this translation we're focus on teachings of Yama, the god of death.
If you're interested in Hindu philosophy or the philosophy of the Vedic scriptures, be sure to check out this translation of the Katha Upanishad! The teachings of Yama are complex, but they're an important part of Hindu mythology and religion. In this translation, we're providing a simplified English version of these teachings so that you can understand them better.
With this brief introduction, lets begin our first story from Katha Upanishad: the story of Nachiketa.
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