om

sahanavavathu | saha nav punakthu |

saha veeryam karavavahai ||

thejasvina-vatheethamasthu

ma vithvishavahai ||

om let the brahmam save both of us the teacher and the student. let us be
nurtered. let us work together with full energy. let our rituals be bright. let us not
have the enemity with each other.

first branch:

in the yaga viswajith the rishi vajasiravas sacrifice all his wealth. he has a son
named nasikethash. .........1.1

he thinks: what is the use of sacrificing old cows which cannot give milk or
calves. ......1.2&3

he asks his father three times : to whom you are going to sacrifice me. in anger
his father tells: to yama (the lord of death) ..........1.4

i will go before all the other students go to yama what i can do to lord yama : he
thinks ......1.5

he tells to his father: we will only do what our ancesters had done. human
beings are born and die like grasses without any use. ........1.6

nasikethash goes to the world of yama. as yama is not there he waits for three
days without food and water.

if a man who has done all his rituals with agni(fire) is waiting at a fools house for
three days without food , all his desires, aims, ambitions, friendship of good
people, good words, all rituals, human services, relatives, cows will be perished
by the agni (fire). ......1.7&8

yama feels sorry. he tells: you have been waiting in front of my house for three
days without food. i obey you. ask me three boons for that. ......1.9

oh yama let my father be without anger and let him not worrying about me.
accept me with love after you left me. this is my first boon. ......1.10

your father will be free from worries about you. he will not be angry hereafter. he
will sleep in the night peacefully. .....1.11

there is no fear in the heaven as you (yama) is not there. no old age. no hunger
or thirst. you know the secret for agnihoma (fire rituals) to go there to heaven.
you must teach that to me. this is my second boon. .....1.12&13

oh nasikethash i will now teach you the ritual of fire related to heaven. know it
deeply. and he describes the method and rituals. .....1.14&15

let this ritual be in your name (nasikethash agni) one who is doing it will learn
vedhas, mantras, and rules and will cross the birth and death cycle. he will
understand the agni and keep him as his soul and be in peace. he will escape
from ignorance, anger, hatred. ......1.16to 19

nasikethash asks: teach me the secret of life after death. some say that it is like
this and some say that it is not. yama replies: dont ask me this question. even
thavas didn't understand it..1.20&21

you youself is telling that even the thevas didn't understand it. therefore you
alone can explain this. .....1.22

ask me children and grandchildren with fullest longivity, cows, elephants, horses
and gold. have an empire. live long. ask me any boon. rule the entire world. fulfill
all your desires. have ladies, chariots, musical instruments. but dont ask me
about death. .....1.23to25

all these things are perishable. they destroy the moral courage, and all the
senses. long life is nothing. at the end chariots, music and dances are the only
remainings. man cannot be satisfied with material things. when we meet you all
these things will be given to us, no doubt. it is not necessary to ask them
separately. i am asking only that boon. .........1.24to27

what the yama given will be taken away by himself during death. he is getting
back everything during death. what is the use of getting worldly things from
himself.

evenafter finding the people who are not having the ageing and death, and
evenafter finding out that worldly pleasures are perishable how can me ask
those temporary things. oh yama give me only that knowledge which is
considered as high by the human beings. .......1.28&29

second branch:

yama teaches:

there are two ways. chreyas and preyas. chreyas is the way

for eternal bliss. preyas is for worldly sensual pleasures.

one who follows chreyas will get the highest benefit and who

follows preyas will loose the purpose of his birth for which

he has come to this world. ........2.1

both the chreyas and the preyas will approach the human
being. ie: man will get the chance to learn both. the intelligent will

research on them and know the difference between them.

he leaves preyas and follows chreyas. the dull head will

follow the preyas to earn money and to save it. .......2.2

o nathikethash! you have left all the desires in which people are fall and die. you
have not gone in that way. ..........2.3

the knowledge and the ignorance are away from each other. you have
approached the knowledge. you have not disturbed by the desires. .........2.4

one who immersed in ignorance will think that they are the knowledged and that
they are great and they confused themselves they guide others like a blind is
guiding other blind. ......2.5

the matters related to heaven and wisdom will not be understood by the people
who are having worldly desires and ignorant. the world is the heaven there is no
another heaven he thinks and locked in death. ........2.6

some will not even heard about that. even heay will not understand that. they
will not speak about that. they cannot reach that. even if a great master teaches
it one who absorbs it will also be rare. ......2.7

(one in thousand heard about the brahmam. among them one in thousand tries to know
about it. among them one in thousand realises it. ...........geetha 7.3

if a teacher with lesser qualities teaches it , the brahmam cannot be understood,

because it will be analaised in various ways. if a teacher who has realized that
teaches that there will be no misguided explanations. as that is smaller than the
atom itself it cannot be explained by the logical arguement...........2.8

brahmam will have to be taught by the method of explaining like that is not
this, this is not that etc. (reductio ad absurdam method.)

o, nasikethash! what you have obtained is not obtained by logical arquements. it

is obtained by your deep wisdom and dedication. if a student like you is
available to me i will be happy. ............2.9

saved wealth is perishable i know. the brahma gnana (knowledge) cannot be

purchased by the worldly wealth. eventhough the rituals are done by perishable
things we can get the brahma gnana which is permanent and i have become
immortal. ..........2.10

you have reached by your determined mind the stage for the eternal bliss which
is beyond all the desires, which is the shelter for all the life in the entire universe,
which is the final result for all the actions, where the fearlessness ends finally,
which is appreciated by all, which cannot be measured by anything, which is
omnipresent, which is the life for the life itself. and by that you have crossed all
the bindings of the world. ..........2.11

the brahmam cannot be visible. it pears everything and existing inside that. it
is permanently inside the knowledge. it is there throughout the body. it is
ancient. it is bright. by reaching that the strongminded will leave the bindings of
sorrow and pleasure.
.............2.12

hearing this, understanding this to correct root, separating the inner meaning by
wisdom, one who reach the soul will be inpermanent bliss. the heaven is
opened to you, nasikethash. ......2.13

nasikethash: please tell me the truth which is beyond the good and bad, beyond
the action and its reason, beyond the existnigs and the future.
........2.14

which is appreciated by all the sayings, which is approached by all penance, for
which the entire efforts are made, i will tell you it now. it is omm.
......2.15

the matter is that the mind is going on thinking without any stop without
our own control even if we are trying it to stop. so the first step is select
a small word and going on repeating it. since the omm has been related
to a certain religion one can select any word for example jesus, allah,
omm, mary, or any god's small name or words even like rose etc. but you
will have to give intervel between two words when you chanting it. for
example if you take one second for the word you will have to spent five
seconds for the intervel. so if you are in meditation for one hour means
your mind is active for ten minutes and the mind is in silence for fifty
minutes. that is the secret. in due course say six months your mind will
be ready for dropping the mantra itself (word) and immersed in silence. if
the practice continues alba waves will be produced by the brain and you
will be in bliss in due course. maharishi mahesh yogi's transcendental
meditation is based on this simple technique which is giving correct
result in meditators. join in that course and get the benefits.

this word brahmam is the real brahmam. this is the supersoul. one who knows
this mantra can get everything what he wishes.
...........2.16

this attachment is the best. this atachment is the highest. one who hold it will
reach the heaven. ....2.17

one who found out this truth will have no birth or death. this soul is not arrived
from anything. and anything is not come from this soul. it has no birth. it is
permanent. it has no death. it proceeds everything. even when the body is
perished it will not perish. .............2.18

eventhough the killer is thinking that he has killed something, eventhough the
killed is thinking that he has been killed both are wrong. one cannot kill or be
killed..........2.19

it is smaller the atom itself ( we can now say 'neutran'), it is bigger than the big.
it is inside the life. one who leaves the desire will see that soul. he will be in
bliss as all the senses are in clear knowledge and knows the value of the soul.
.........2.20

motionless it crosses everything. it is in happiness and sorow. one can find it

out by himself only. without a body it is inside the body. it is permanent even in
temperory, it is big even in small, omnipresent. i myself is the soul must be the
feeling of the knowledged. ...........2.21&22

by learning all the vedhas, by intelligence, by elobarate arquements, one canot

reach the real stage. one who pray the soul alone can only reach that. then
the soul will automatically shows its presence by itself. .....2.23

that means you must be in silence mentally, physically, soully and

anything.

one who cannot leave bad habbits, one who cannot control the senses, one
who cannot control the mind by determination will not get any result.
..........2.24

naturally if you are doing anything wrong your mind will not leave you
alone cursing you inside. you cannot throw the mind outside. so you
cannot get the peace.

who knows the brahmam which is like the food for the living being, and which is
taking the yama himself as pickles ....2.25

the nature of life is analysed here. if the life is like the food for brahmam
then the death which is coming then and there is only like pickles.

third branch:

there are two persons inside the cosmic area of the heart namely the adhma
and the brahmam.(the soul and the super soul.) the most knowledged
philosophers, the renowned people who do there rituals correctly, the people
who do there agni homa three times are comparing them tothe sunlight and the
shadow. ...............3.1

the soul and the supersoul are compared with the shadow and the light. if
something is obstructing the light then there will be shadow. there is no
fixed shape for the light. but the shadow has a fixed shape. but the light is
the origin. reduced light is shadow. the light and the shadow are the
same. like that the soul is the shadow of the supersoul. if the obstruction
is removed both will unite.

the agni rituals is the bridge to all the rituals, and is the undestructable
brahmam, and the courage and determination to the people who are willing to
cross the life and death cycle. .........3.2

know that the body is charriot, the mind is the controlling whip, the knowledge is
the driver, the life force is the traveller, all the senses are horses, the subjects
which are enjoyed are the path, the life which is combined together with the
body, the senses, the mind is the enjoyer.......
.............3.3&4

like bad horses which are not obeying the driver the senses cannot be controlled
by the people who are having uncontrollable mind and dull head without
wisdom. one who is having the controlled mind and wisdom can control the
senses like good horses. .........3.5&6
one who has no wisdom, uncontrolled mind and ugly with bad habbits will not
reach the heaven and he will be entangled in the life and death cycle
permanently. one who is having high wisdom, controlled mind and pure in his
activities will reach the heaven from which there is no rebirth.............3.7&8

one who is using the wisdom as the driver and the controlled mind as the whip
can cross the desert of the birth and death. that is the stage of union with god
and that is the heaven. ..........3.9

the five bases (like light sound etc) are powerful than the senses. mind is more
powerful than the bases. (because they cannot control the mind.) the
knowledge is more powerful than the mind. the balanced mind is more powerful
than the knowledge. ..........3.10

the soul is more powerful than the balanced mind. the supersoul is more
powerful than the soul. there is nothing more than the supersoul. that is the final
stage. that is the valuable stage. ..........3.11

that god (supersoul) is existing in everything. not visible to the senses. but
visible to highly knowledged if applied the wisdom in correct way.
.........3.12

the sound must be concentrate on the mind. the mind must be concentrate on
bright knowledge. the knowledge must be reduced to soul. soul must be
reduced to the god .
...........3.13

arise. awake. approach the great teachers to get the wisdom. the route is sharp
like a knife's edge. it is hard to walk and cross. know the thing which is beyond
sound, touch, sight, taste and smell, which has no changes, which is permanent,
which has no end or beginning, which is greater than the wisdom, which is well
balanced and escape from the grip of death.
........3.14&15

by hearing and telling this nasikethash prayer which is taught by yama one will
become great in heaven. one who teach this knowledge to the people who are
interested in god or tell this in the final ritual of death will get all the benefits.
.........3.16

fourth branch:

god has created the senses with an external approach. so human beings are
looking only the appearances. some highly wisdomed alone are having an
intention to cross the life and death cycle and turn his mind towards inward and
see the supersoul. ............4.1

the low knowledged is interested in the worldly pleasures and captured in death
trap. the wisdomed one knows that the world is perishable and does'nt search
them.......4.2

by which knowledge all these senses are utilised, the same knowledge is
anlysing them and separate them from himself. which is making it? that is the
athma (soul) ......4.3

by which one is experiencing the life in sleep and awakened stage, the
knowledged one will realise it as the soul and never falls in sorrow.
.......4.4

by the karma of previous births the life is here and in the previous and in the
future. understanding that the soul is same in all these births one will not worry
about saving himself. as he does'nt feel any difference there will be no sorrow
or fear. that is the stage we are now going to research.
.............4.5

the brahmam is in complete penance. from that the soul comes out before the
water and the other four sources and exists in the heart of the living beings. one
who finds out that in all the living things will only find out the truth. that is our
research. .....4.6

which is in the form of every deities, which has been told as that it is coming
from outside everything, which is inside the heart (not the physical but the
abstract one), which is coming with every new coming living beings is the
brahmam......4.7

it is like the fire which is inside the wood and like the new life which is inside a
womb and like the fire which is carefully looked after i n rituals the brahmam is
inside the heart. ..............4.8

from where the sun is coming out and to where he is setting out in the evening
there all the living beings are depending on it. nobody can cross it. that is the
thing we are going to research. .............4.9

what is inside here is also there. one who find out any difference will reach
only the death from the death. it must be reached only by mind. there is no
difference of opinion in it. one who find out any difference in this will reach only
death from death. ............4.10&11
the adma is in the size of thumb finger in the heart. for all coming inside and
going outside he is the reason. one who knows it will not worry about saving
himself. ....4.12

he is like a light without any smoke. he is the reason for all that created in the
past and for all that which are going to be created in the future. he is here
today and he will be here tomorrow.
............4.13

the rain water which falls on the top of a mountain spereads on all sides.
similarly one who find out differences in living systems will run after each and
every faiths and confuses himself. like pure water poured in another pure
water merges without any difference the wisdomed one will find out all the faiths
as only one.....4.14&15

fifth branch:

for which there is no death, for which there is no perversions, for which the
eleven doored body is only like a house and one who realises it will not fell in
sorrow. he will escape from the death and birth bondage. that is
this .........5.1

“that is this” is a great word “maha vagya” among the other four maha
vagyas. that is what you are searching outside in the world as god by
various methods, rituals, practices and so on. this is what you are
experiencing yourself inside you after severe penance. both are
same.......ashokha

he is like the sun which is crossing the clear sky. he is the air which is
everywhere. he is the fire in the earth. he is the guest in the house. he is inside
the humanbeing. he is in the best wisdomed. he is in the truth. he is in the sky.
he is coming out from water and from the earth and from all the rituals. he is
coming out from mountains like a river. he is everywhere. he is big.
..............5.2

he is raising the upper air in the body and downing the lower air in the body. he
is inside the body in a small shape. everybody prays only for him.
...........5.3

when he leaves the body what is remaining. nothing. the life and the body has
no energy. that is our researching object.the man is not living by the breath he
is doing. the force which is doing the breath is the origin. .......5.4&5

o knowledged! here me carefully. i will repeat the secret and the old now. i will
tell you why this life which is suffering after death because of not knowing this
secret...5.6

some are getting another body by reaching another reproductive organ and
some are reaching the stage of vegetation. it is depending upon their
knowledge and wisdom and actions they have done. ........5.7

one who creates desires even when you are sleeping is the truth, is the adma,
and is the nector. all worlds are settled only in him. no one can go
overthroughing him. that is this
..........5.8

how the fire is taking the shape of the worldly things which it engulfed, similarly
the adma is taking the shape of everything it occupies and even beyond them.
.....5.9

water is having various names such as jal, aqua, pani, neer etc similarly
god is having various names such as eashwar, allah, supersoul, etc
.........ramakrishna paramahamsa

how the air is taking the shape of the things it occupies the adma is taking the
shape it occupies. ...........5.10

the sun, the eye of the entire world, is not affected by the physical eyes if they
are having any fault. similarly the adma which is inside everything is not
affected by the pain and sorrows of the world and even beyond that. ......5.11

there is no pain but only happiness to one who find out that the adma is inside
him which is the supersoul and the god who can take the shape of everything he
occupies. others cannot.
.............5.12

the adma is permanent even in perishable things. he is the knowledge of the

living beings. he gives all desires to the being he live inside. one who find out
that he is inside him will be in bliss and peace. others cannot. .........5.13

one canot point out that (the super bliss) and this is practically here inside.
wisdomed one thinks like that. whether it is like a bright light or whether it is like
a thing that is having a brightness by reflecting some thing? we canot say that.
we cannot know that by our knowledge...5.15

even the sun is not bright there. moon and stars are not bright enough. even
the lightning canot have brightness there. then how is the ordinary agni we
grow here will be bright. everything is bright only by following the brightness of
the adma. they are existing only by the light of the adma itself..
...............5.16

one brahmin by name abirami pattar is doing his meditation in the temple
of abirami in thirukadaiyur in tamilnadu in india. king comes to that temple
and see him. he thinks that he is purposefully closing his eyes to ignore
him. minister add the fire by saying that he is a psychic. to test the
knowledge of that brahmin king asks what is the day today. as pattar is
having a full brightness inside he says that is a full moon day.
unfortunately that day is zero moon day. king gets angry and put the
pattar in a cradle and put fire underneath. pattar comes to his
consciousness only after that. pattar sings an anthathi(the lost word of the
stanza will be first word of the next stanza). goddess abirami comes down
and put the fire out. king sees the brightness of the stud of the goddess
and apoliges.

history says so many incidents like this. kings are doing wrong things by
their ignorance. our beloved christ has been put in cross. our beloved
probhet mohamed has been disturbed by arrogants. they are not ignoring
others. as they are identify themselves with god they are in superbliss.
we are only doing harm to them due to our ignorance. by their
magnanimity they forgive us.

sixth branch:

the brahmam is like a banyan tree which is having the roots in the sky and
branches inside the earth. that is the elixir. all worlds are settled only in that.
one cannot cross that. that is this.
.......6.1
the entire world is coming out from that brahmam which is the basic life force
and working along that. afraiding to the vajrayutha (we can say atomic bomb of
today) the world obeys and works in a fixed way. .........6.2

afraiding to the brahmam fire is burning, sun is burning, rain comes, air flows,
yama (the lord of death) jumps upon living beings.
........6.3

before this body fell in to the earth if one doesnt realises the brahmam he will
born as plants and trees and animals. .........6.4

we can see the brahmam easily like mirror in our own mind, like dreams in the
heaven, like water in the world of gandharva, like sun light and shadow in the
brahma loga. .....6.5

it is easy to know brahmam in this body itself. as there is no sleep in

heaven there will be no dreams. gandharva loga is gandhagar of today and
there will be no water in deserts. brahma loga is arctic area and the sun will
not come daily.

all senses are not inter connected to each other. but brahmam engaged in all
these senses and not entangled with them. when the senses are awakened it
comes and when sleeps it disappears. knowledged one will analyse this and
will be in happy. .......6.7

if people are assembled it is a market. the market will not exist without
people. but the body and the senses are not like that. there is no feeling of
“i am” to the market. but man has that feeling permanently. there must be
some inward energy hiding inside for this. .........................rajaji

we are often saying my house , my office, my vehicle. o.k. the my is some

human being. but we say my hand , my legs, my eyes, etc, like that. who is
that “my” ..............ashokha

the mind is more powerful than the senses. knowledge is more powerful than
the mind. the soul is more powerful than the knowledge. and the supersoul is
more powerful than the soul. the god is more powerful than the supersoul. the
being will realises that and reach the deathless stage...6.7&8

it will not stand before eyes. eyes cannot see that. by strongmind and wisdom
one can reach that. one who knows that will not die. .......6.9

when all the senses are completely bound with the mind and when the
knowledge has no action the higher stage comes.
the motionless stage of the senses is called yoga. one who reached that stage
must be careful as the yoga may appear and disappear now and then.
............6.10&11
adma cannot be reached by speech, mind and eyes. but you must realise that
only by believing the gnanis who are telling that it is there.
..........6.12

at first stage it will appear by itself by having the faith that one can see that and
following the idea that one can see that and leave the other idea that one cannot
see that. if one is interested in that “we can see” idea strongly the brahmam
which is beyond the physical and abstract things and which cannot be reached
by speech and mind will appear automatically. ..........6.13

when all the desires perished the humanbeing who are having the nature of life
and death will not die. he will be in superbliss. ........6.14

when all the knots of the hearts are loosened the humanbeing will not die. that
is the end of my(yama) advice. there are one hundred and one nadis (nerves)
from the heart and only one is going towards the top of the head. if the life is
going out through this and he will reach the deathless stage. all other nadis will
lead to death only. ........6.15&16

(medicos can research on this)

the inner adma is in the shape of thumb finger and always inside the hearts of
people. like taking out a string from a grass he must be separated from the
body by our knowledge. we must know that he is the truth and the nector.
............6.17

by learning this technique from yama nasikethash reached the brahma stage
and leaves all his sins and crosses the death. others also who learns this and
follows this will reach the higher stage. ..........6.18

om sahanavavathu |

sahanav punakthu |

saha veeryam karavavahai |

thejasvinavatheethamasthu ma vithvishavahai ||

om santhi : santhi : santhi : ||

|| ithi kadopanishad samabtha ||

om let us (the teacher and the student ) must be saved by the
brahmam. let us be nourished. let us work with our fullest energy. let
our rituals be brightened. let us not have enemity with each other.

om : let there be peace in the three world.

that is the end of kadopanished