RELIGST 2M03 Lecture Notes - Fire Worship, The Horses, Upanishads
9 Dec 2013
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In the katha upanishad, death is a main character. It comes across and a strikingly friendly, even a needy character. Death comes across not as a powerful force but as a high level employee of the gods- an educated beurocrat. Death comes across as a personality, that is not necessarily deeply wise or malicious, but well trained in distributing the dead to where they are supposed to go. A conductor or mover of people, and he understands how his job works and why it needs to work this way. If death is a person or personality, they understand the truth. It works with the truth; he"s not involved with the truth. Death is not a central ingredient to life, but only a worker to the truth and what it needs to be. Death is respectful of the truth, and the person is both of and in that truth.
