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Ratha Kalpana
''Ratha Kalpana'' () is a metaphor used in Hindu scriptures to describe the relationship between the senses, mind, intellect and the Self. The metaphor was first used in the ''Katha Upanishad'' and is thought to have inspired similar descriptions in the ''Bhagavad Gita'', the ''Dhammapada'' and Plato's ''Phaedrus''. Gerald James Larson, a scholar of Indian philosophies, believes that the chariot metaphor contains one of the earliest references to ideas and terminology of the Indian philosophical school Samkhya.
==Background==
''Ratha Kalpana'' is used, in the third chapter of ''Katha Upanishad'', as a device to explain the hierarchy of various levels of existence. In this context, spiritual practice is seen as a return to consciousness through the levels of manifested existence. The metaphor forms a part of the teaching imparted to Nachiketa, a child seeking knowledge about life after death, by Yama, the Hindu god of death. It follows an instruction by Yama on the difference between ''preya'' (pleasant) and ''shreya'' (good). William K. Mahony, in ''The Artful Universe: An Introduction to the Vedic Religious Imagination'', writes, "We have in this metaphor an image of a powerful process that can either lead to fulfillment or in which the seeker can become lost."
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