[Advaita-l] kathakopanishad & yama

[kuntimaddi sadananda]

Ajit - jnaani understands that he is never a kartaa, hence he does not incur either merits or sins. However he does follow the dharma - to set example for others who do not have the self-knmowledge and follow whatever shreShTa purusha does. Hence Yama was following the rules that were laid out in receiving a learned brahmin boy. 
Hari Om!
Sadananda


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> From: Ajit Krishnan <ajit.krishnan at gmail.com>
> 
>
>In the kathopanishad, yama teaches para vidya. Bhashyakara starts by
>saluting him, and anandagiri's gloss shows him to be a gyani --
>"sAkshAtkRta-paramAnandaH ... akartRbrahmAtmatAnubhavabalataH" etc.
>In mantra 1.1.9, he presents three boons to Nachiketas in lieu of the
>pratyavAya-dosha. Here, bhAshyakAra says "he brahman svasti bhadram me.astu
>| tasmAt bhavataH anashanena madgRha-vAsa-nimitta-doShAt
>tatprAptyupashamena ||"
>
>Does the pratyavAya-dosha apply to a gyani?
>
>sasneham,
>
>   ajit
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