Third boon of Nachiketa

      Yamraj got please by the sincerity of Nachiketa and gave him three boons. He asked to pacify his father’s anger, instead of asking to overcome the fear of death. He asked about the process of getting to heaven as the second boon. The third thing he asked was the real form of soul and the knowledge how to attain that. Since he had promised to give three boons, so he tried to elude him from this third boon on considering him unworthy for such knowledge and told him to ask anything else. But he had to know only the science of soul and the knowledge of state of soul after death. Having the freedom of choice, in spite of having options to get other happiness, liberation, rebirth etc. he preferred self-knowledge and knowledge of the supreme. He mastered the Panchagni Sadhna and guided mankind successfully. Very few people are so lucky.