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 nurtured. Let us work together with full energy. Let our 
rituals be bright. Let us not have the enmity 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 ancestors 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 be 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 Agni homa 
(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: 
Don't ask me this question. Even thevas didn't understand it..1.20&21

You yourself 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 longevity, 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 don't 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 remaining. 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. 

Even after finding the people who are not having the aging and 
death, and even after 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

Who immersed in ignorance will think that they are having more 
knowledge 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 some 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 realizes it.)    ..........Geetha...7.3
 

If a teacher with lesser qualities teaches it , the Brahmam 
cannot be understood, because it will be explained 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 argument...........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 argument. 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 about God) cannot be purchased by the worldly 
wealth. Even though 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 strong minded 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 in permanent 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 
existence 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 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. Instead of Omm 
one can select any word for example Jesus, Allah, Mary, or any 
god's small name or words even like rose etc. But you will have 
to give interval 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 interval. 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. .....ashokha

This word Brahmam (OMM) 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 attachment 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

Even though the killer is thinking that he has killed something, 
even though 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 'neutron'), 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 sorrow. 
One can find it out by himself only. Without a body it is inside 
the body. It is permanent even in temporary, 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 elaborate 
argument, one cannot 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, and in 
soul and in anything.

One who cannot leave bad habits, 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 analyzed 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 Adma 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 to the sunlight and the shadow. ...............3.1

The soul and the super soul 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 super soul. If the obstruction is removed both will unite.

The Agni rituals is the bridge to all the rituals, and is the 
indestructible 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 chariot, the mind is the controlling whip, 
the knowledge is the driver, the life force is the traveler, 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 
habits 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 super 
soul is more powerful than the soul. There is nothing more than 
the super soul. That is the final stage. That is the valuable stage. ..........3.11

That God (super soul) is existing in everything. Not visible 
to the senses. But visible to highly knowledged if they 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

This “arise and awake” is often used by our beloved Swami 
Vivekananda
often.

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 super soul. ............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 doesn't search them.......4.2

By which knowledge all these senses are utilized, the same 
knowledge is analyzing them and separate them from himself. 
Which is making it? 
That is the adma (soul) ......4.3

By which one is experiencing the life in sleep and awakened stage, 
the knowledged one will realize 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 doesn't 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 in 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 spreads 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 
realizes 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 human being. 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 breathing he is doing. The force 
which is doing the breathing 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 nectar. All worlds are settled 
only in him. No one can go over throughing 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 super soul 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 cannot 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 
cannot 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 cannot 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. (As Abirami
Pattar is in ecstasy he prays all the women coming 
to the temple as Goddess Abirami herself). 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 no 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 apologizes.

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 Prophet Mohamed has been disturbed by rulers. 
They are not ignoring others. As they are identify themselves 
with god they are in super bliss. 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. Afraid to the 
vajrayutha (we can say atomic bomb of today) the world 
obeys and works in a fixed way. .........6.2

Afraid 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 doesn't realizes 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 Gandharvas , 
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 
Kandahar 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 analyze 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” analyze ..............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 super soul is more powerful than the soul. 
The god is more powerful than the super soul. The being will 
realizes that and reach the deathless stage...6.7&8

It will not stand before eyes. Eyes cannot see that. By strong 
mind 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 realize 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 human being who are 
having the nature of life and death will not die. He will be in 
super bliss. ........6.14

When all the knots of the hearts are loosened the human being 
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 nectar. ............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 enmity 
with each other.
om : let there be peace in the three world.

that is the end of kadopanished