Thought Bites

Refusing the Baubles: A Lesson from the Katha Upanishad Think about what you most enjoy in life. Good food, beautiful music, the pleasure of good company, the comfort of familiar routines. Now imagine being offered all of it — in abundance, without limit — and being asked to trade it for something you cannot see, cannot taste, and cannot easily describe. Would that be a hard choice? For most of us, if we are honest, the answer is yes. The Katha Upanishad opens with exactly th