Katha-2-1-15-yathodakaṃ

Sri Shankara’s Commentary (Bhashya) translated by S. Sitarama Sastri

But how becomes the âtman of a thinker who has acquired knowledge, whose perception of difference due to conditions has been destroyed, and who knows the âtman pure, dense with knowledge unalloyed, and one without a second, is explained. As water pure poured into pure becomes of the same quality, not otherwise, the âtman also of the thinker becomes the same, Oh Gautama. Therefore, leaving the perception of difference induced by bad logic and the erroneous notion of no-here-after, the perception of the one-ness of the âtman inculcated by the Vêdâs, a better well-wisher than thousands of mothers and fathers should be anxiously respected by those whose pride has been quelled.

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॥ इति काठकोपनिषदि द्वितीयाध्याये प्रथमा वल्ली ॥

|| iti kāṭhakopaniṣadi dvitīyādhyāye prathamā vallī ||

Here ends the Fourth Part.

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Links
Various resources on the Kathopanishad
Upanishad Series – Katopanishad Commentary by Swami Chinmayananda