Kaṭha Upanishad
The dialogue between young Naciketas and Yama, lord of death — on the indestructible self (ātman), the chariot of the body, the unmanifest above the manifest, and the secret of yoga. From the Kaṭha school of the Kṛṣṇa Yajurveda.
Source context· Indian stream · Ancient Indian cultural impulse
- Stream
- Indian
- Cultural impulse
- Ancient Indian (1st post-Atlantean cultural age)
- Composed
- c. 400 BCE
- Written down
- Greco-Latin (4th post-Atlantean cultural age) manuscript epoch
- 1Katha-Upanishad
Initiation through encounter with death: Nachiketa's descent to Yama and the transmission of the Atman-teaching
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