ABSTRACT
The Katha Upanishad begins with a question which has troubled man from time out of mind: ‘There is this doubt about a man when he is deadi some say that he exists, others, that he does not.’ Evidently scepticism and atheism are as old as human thinking. As man’s expanding consciousness became self-conscious he wanted to know about the true nature of himself and the universe. The Upanishad discusses the problem through a story containing a dialogue between Nachiketa and Yama, the King of Death.
