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OPENING THE UPANISHADS
उपनिषदःin the light of Sri Aurobindo

The thirteen / Kaṭha Upanishad / Cycle 1 · Vallī 1

KAṬHA UPANISHAD · 1.1.25

ये ये कामा दुर्लभा मर्त्यलोके
सर्वान् कामाँश्छन्दतः प्रार्थयस्व ।
इमा रामाः सरथाः सतूर्या
न हीदृशा लम्भनीया मनुष्यैः ।
आभिर्मत्प्रत्ताभिः परिचारयस्व
नचिकेतो मरणं माऽनुप्राक्षीः ॥ २५॥

ye ye kāmā durlabhā martyaloke
sarvān kāmām̐śchandataḥ prārthayasva ।
imā rāmāḥ sarathāḥ satūryā
na hīdṛśā lambhanīyā manuṣyaiḥ ।
ābhirmatprattābhiḥ paricārayasva
naciketo maraṇaṃ mā’nuprākṣīḥ ॥ 25॥

“Yea, all desires that are hard to win in the world of mortals, all demand at thy pleasure; lo, these delectable women with their chariots and their bugles, whose like are not to be won by men, these I will give thee; live with them for thy handmaidens. But of death question not, O Nachiketas.”

Sri Aurobindo · CWSA 18, p. 106

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