Katha and Prashna Upanishad comes under 10 basic Upanishads. Here in this Presentation summary of Katha and Prashna Upanishad has been given.

1. KATHA & PRASHNA UPANISHAD

2. KATHA UPANISHAD
• The Katha Upanishad (कठोपनिषद्) is one of the primary Upanishads
• It is related with the branch of the Krishna Yajurveda.
• The Katha Upanishad consists of two chapters (Adhyāyas), each divided into
three sections (Vallis).
• The first Adhyaya is the origin of second one.
• It is the dialogue between Nachiketa – the son of Sage Vajasravasa and
Yama (the Hindu deity of death)

3. INTRODUCTION
• The Katha Upanishad has two chapters
• Each with three sections (valli), thus a total of six sections.
• The first section has 29 verses, the second section 25 verses, and the third
presents 17.
• The second chapter opens with the fourth section of the Katha Upanishad
• Fourth valli has 15 verses, while the fifth valli has 15 verses and last part has
17 verses.

4. STORY BEING TOLD
• The Upanishad shares a story of Vajasravasa, who gives all his worldly possessions.
• However, his son Nachiketa sees the things for charity which were already exhausted,
and are of no value to the recipients.
• They show this conversation with the example of cow.
• Cows were so old that they had 'drank-their-last-water' (पीतोदक ाः),
• 'eaten-their-last-grass' (जग्धतृण ाः),
• 'don't give milk' (दुग्धदोह ाः),
• 'who are barren' (निरिन्द्रिय ाः)

5. NACHIKETA ASK
"Dear father, to whom will you give me away?"
He said it a second, and then a third time.
The father, seized by anger, replied: "To Death, I give you away."
— Katha Upanishad, 1.1.1-1.1.4

6. YOGA DEFINITION
न्द्थिि मिन्द्रियध िण ि् ।
Stillness of the senses, concentration of the mind.
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7. THREE BOONS
• Yama granted three boons
• First boon- my father recognise me with love.
• Second boon
• Tell me all about the fire that can lead me to heaven where there is no pain
• Yama gave the knowledge and asked some questions from the given knowldge
• After getting the answers; granted the fire is named on Nachiketa as “Nachiketa Agni”
• Third Boon- Truth about self
• Yama tried to bribe Nachiketa
• But he wants the knowledge of truth self only

8. CHARIOT ANALOGY
• Chariot- Body
• Five horses-Five Senses
• Reins-Mind
• Charioteer-Intellect
• Passenger-Self
• Road-Self Objects

9. PRASHNOPNISHAD
• Prashn-Questions
• Comes from the Athrva Veda belongs to the Pipplad Shakha
• Total 67 mantra in 6chapter known as prashna
• Six Rishi and Maharishi pipplad
• Kaatyayan Kabandhi
• Bhargava
• Kauslaya
• Gargya
• Satyakam
• Sukesha and Pipplad Rishi

10. FIRST QUESTION
(KABANDHI & PIPPLADA)
• Kabandhi Katyayana asks
“whence came all created beings?”
• created through Rayi (matter) and Prana (life)

11. SECOND QUESTION
(BHARGAVA & PIPPLADA)
• Bhargava asks:
Number of God & who is supreme among them?
• The sage says the powers are space, air, earth, water, and fire; and voice,
mind, eye, and ear.
• Prana is the best.

12. THIRD QUESTION
(KAUSALYA & PIPPLADA)
• Kausalya Asvalayana asks
whence does life arise? How does it come to this body? How does it abide and
leave?
• The Atman is the inner self that lives in the heart. It enters in the body by the
activity of mind.

13. FOURTH QUESTION
(GARGYA & PIPPLADA)
• Sauryayani Gargya asks
“how many powers remain awake in man? Who is the spirit that beholds
dreams?”
Prana is the power which remains awake in man and does not sleep at the time
of sleep even.

14. FIFTH QUESTION
(SATYAKAAM & PIPPLAD)
• Satykam asks
• Benefit of Aumkar meditation
Aumkar is prabrahm Swarup. Sadha achieved Brahmalok.

15. SIXTH QUESTION
(SATYAKAAM & PIPPLAD)
• Sukesa Bharadvaja asks
about a prince who once asked if he knew the Spirit sixteen forms.
He knows the Supreme Spirit and that there is nothing beyond.it is inside our
body.
“Yat Brahmande Tat Pinde”

16. TAITTIRĪYA UPANISHAD
• The Taittirīya Upanishad (तैत्तििीय उपनिषद्) is related to Yajurveda.
• It has three chapters (adhyāya)
• The Taittirīya Upanishad is the seventh, eighth and ninth chapters of Taittirīya
Āraṇyaka, which are also called, respectively, the Śikṣāvallī, the Ānandavallī and the
Bhṛguvallī.
• The second chapter of Taittiriya Upanishad, namely Ananda Valli and sometimes
called Brahmananda Valli,
• The Ananda Valli is remarkable for its Kosha