-g98468)"/>20:T46e,Śaṅkara reads this as Naciketas addressing his sorrowing father directly, asking in effect: 'why are you so troubled by what I said?' अनुपश्य, he explains, means look, consider, in due order (अनुक्रमेण) how those who came before you -- your father, grandfather, and others -- have already passed away; having seen that, you ought to rest content with their [same] course. And प्रतिपश्य -- look also at how good people living now conduct themselves in just the same way. He stresses that none of this -- neither the departed nor the living -- ever falsifies this pattern; the only thing that would be a falsification (मृषाकरणम्) is behaving as though it were otherwise. No one becomes ageless or deathless by pretending it is otherwise. Just as grain ripens and decays and is reborn again from itself, so a mortal decays in dying and is born again after death. In so unstable a world, Śaṅkara says, what use is pretense? Guard only what is true in yourself; his real intention, Śaṅkara adds, is 'send me to Death' (प्रेषय मां यमाय).23:["portalId","tatvalaya","d"] 24:["textId","katha","d"] 25:["chapterI

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