A Constructive Survey of Upanishadic Philosophy c6.s2.2

c6.s2.2

10. The most important passage, however, where eschatological knowledge is regarded as the “ highest good ” occurs in the celebrated dialogue in the Kaṭha Upanishad between Nachiketas and Yama, the God of death, where Nachiketas, being offered three boons by Yama, and having chosen two already, declines to choose for the third boon anything short of the knowledge of the soul’s existence after the death of the human body:—