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Kaöhopaniñad – 42





       SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA


             e now begin the last section of this  Upanishad. Yamaräjä
       Wtells Nachiketa: Look here! I am going to show you a tree.
       Nachiketa wondered at this. A tree? So far, Yamaräjä had been
       speaking only about  ätmä and  Brahman. The following mantra
       explains what that tree is.



             ^XvRmUlae=vaKzao @;ae=ñTw> snatn>,

             tdev zu³< tÓ+ü tdevam&tmuCyte,
             tiSm~‘aeka> iïta> sveR tÊ naTyeit kín,
             @tÖE tt!. 1.
             ürdhva-mülo’väkçäkha eño›çvatthaù sanätanaù,
             tad-eva çukraà tad-brahma tad-evämåtam-ucyate,

             tasmiðllokäù çritäù sarve tadu nätyeti kaçcana,
             etadvai tat. (1)

       See this (eñaù) açvattha (peepal/banyan) tree. The speciality of this
       tree is that it is urdhva-mülaù – its root is above, and the branches


                                         No  education  is a waste, no  bit
                                         of  knowledge redundant,  no
                                         experience  superfluous;  all  can
                                         be intelligently made to serve us
                                         in our pilgrimage to the Truth.
                                                   Swami Chinmayananda



        Tapovan Prasad                21                     October 2025
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