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Podcast: Śivadyuti (शिवद्युति)
Episode: Kaṭhopaniṣad 1.7-8—In the House of Death
Description: The scene shifts suddenly from the sacrifice, the sacrificial arena, where Nachiketa's father tells him, I send you, I give you unto death.
And there's no explanation in the text, but Shankara Acharya explains, drawing information from subsequent shlokas, that he has been waiting there for three days because death was out on some errand. And so when death returns, his advisors or wives are speaking to him about the danger of having a brahmana in the house without serving him.
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