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Nachiketa who has never been to such place as parama pada, is asking question to Yamaraja and Yamaraja’s answer is very extraordinary.   

Nachiketa who has never been to such place as parama pada, is asking question to Yamaraja and Yamaraja’s answer is very extraordinary.   

Oh Nachiketa! The light (Jyothi) which is in your mind, the sun, the moon, the stars, fire etc. are all dependent light, they are not source but effect ||prakartha ( mundane) light with a beginning and an end. However there is another light that is the source of the light of all the material planet. This light is inexhaustible, its flame burns eternally. The light of other material cannot stand to this light, such is the power of this light. As this light is eternal, sometimes the relative light in darkness has the power to give light. The Parmatma illuminates as light being source of all life.  The paramapada,which is eternal has the power to give appropriate happiness according to  parama jyoti.<blockquote>"''tameva bhantam anubhati sarvam tasya bhasa sarvam idam vibhati ||''"</blockquote>Vyasadeva explaines jyoti darshanatah (1.3.41) as  Paramatma,  this mantra comes in between two episodes.   The  same mantra is there in the atharva shaka in mundaka shruti (2.2.11) and the same incident is more clearly mentioned there. Wherever it is addressed as  Paramjyoti in other words as light but it that parmatama, Which is extraordinary. Paramjyoti rupa sampadya (chandogya 8.12.2). <blockquote>"''Tam deva jyoti sham jyotihi ayoryho upasate amrutam (brhada4.4.16)'' "</blockquote><blockquote>"''atha yadatha paro divo jyothih dipyate (chah 3.13.7)'' "</blockquote>etc, one can see many examples here.  Therefore according to vyasadeva, it is addressing paramatma as Jyoti, and associatoin with him is Moksha. <blockquote>"''Soshnute saravahan Kaman saha bramhana vipashchita(taittriya sruti).'' "</blockquote>In the brahma sutras  it is said, <blockquote>"''jyothih charanabidanata (1.1.25)''"</blockquote>To summarize, there is nothing higher than the bhagavan, in all illuminating things or people.  One sees comleteness of Dva, in him.  The Paramatama who is possessing divine form, which is full of light is Himself, is Paramapada, Vaikuntha is defined as land of illumination( Vishnu sahsranama 406).  The description of such mantras is the  purpose of this mantra.

Oh Nachiketa! The light (Jyothi) which is in your mind, the sun, the moon, the stars, fire etc. are all dependent light, they are not source but effect ||prakartha ( mundane) light with a beginning and an end. However there is another light that is the source of the light of all the material loka (लोकः). This light is inexhaustible, its flame burns eternally. The light of other material cannot stand to this light, such is the power of this light. As this light is eternal, sometimes the relative light in darkness has the power to give light. The Parmatma illuminates as light being source of all life.  The paramapada,which is eternal has the power to give appropriate happiness according to  parama jyoti.<blockquote>"''tameva bhantam anubhati sarvam tasya bhasa sarvam idam vibhati ||''"</blockquote>Vyasadeva explaines jyoti darshanatah (1.3.41) as  Paramatma,  this mantra comes in between two episodes.   The  same mantra is there in the atharva shaka in mundaka shruti (2.2.11) and the same incident is more clearly mentioned there. Wherever it is addressed as  Paramjyoti in other words as light but it that parmatama, Which is extraordinary. Paramjyoti rupa sampadya (chandogya 8.12.2). <blockquote>"''Tam deva jyoti sham jyotihi ayoryho upasate amrutam (brhada4.4.16)'' "</blockquote><blockquote>"''atha yadatha paro divo jyothih dipyate (chah 3.13.7)'' "</blockquote>etc, one can see many examples here.  Therefore according to vyasadeva, it is addressing paramatma as Jyoti, and associatoin with him is Moksha. <blockquote>"''Soshnute saravahan Kaman saha bramhana vipashchita(taittriya sruti).'' "</blockquote>In the brahma sutras  it is said, <blockquote>"''jyothih charanabidanata (1.1.25)''"</blockquote>To summarize, there is nothing higher than the bhagavan, in all illuminating things or people.  One sees comleteness of Dva, in him.  The Paramatama who is possessing divine form, which is full of light is Himself, is Paramapada, Vaikuntha is defined as land of illumination( Vishnu sahsranama 406).  The description of such mantras is the  purpose of this mantra.

Here Yamaraja’s instruction has come to come to the description of highest destination(paramapada).  Yamaraja felt Nachiketa did not completely understood, therefore  Yamaraja felt to explain in detail.   

Here Yamaraja’s instruction has come to come to the description of highest destination(paramapada).  Yamaraja felt Nachiketa did not completely understood, therefore  Yamaraja felt to explain in detail.