Re:what is begingless is also endless ! AshwattaTree,,,,

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our most learned Chitranji comments ...

 

What is beginningless is also endless.

 

wow!!!! chitranji, i want to send MANY ROSOGULLAS your way ...

 

guess what !!! you just introduced to the audience the Great ASHWATTA

TREE which shri krishna mentions in the srimad bhagwat gita!!!

(chapter 15)

 

"Devotion through Knowledge of the Supreme Spirit."

 

Krishna uses the Ashwatta tree (Banyan) as a symbol of the

Universe. ] He declares that it grows inverted, with its roots above

and its branches below, ramifying among mankind.

 

The many "leaves" are the Vedas (Holy Scriptures and Rules—see Gita,

p. 108) of which Krishna declares himself, to be the sole interpreter.

 

"Its branches grow out of the three qualities [sattva - Rajas -

Tamas, see Gita, Chapter 14]...with the objects of sense as the

lesser shoots, spread forth, some above and some below in the regions

of mankind are the connecting bonds of action" [karma]. (Gita, p. 105)

 

As a symbol, the eternal, "Mundane Tree," cannot be fully understood,

unless we see that it is the mind aspect of Nature. Because of its

connection with desire, this latter has to be destroyed, "hewn down

with the strong axe of dispassion." (Gita, p. 105) Following this,

the Primeval Spirit is to be sought for: "from which floweth the

never-ending stream of conditioned existence."

 

Dispassion is achieved by those who:

 

"...are free from pride of self and whose discrimination is

perfected, who have prevailed over the fault of attachment to action,

who are constantly employed in devotion to meditation upon the

Supreme Spirit, who have renounced desire and are free from the

influence of the opposites known as pleasure and pain, are

undeluded..." They proceed "to that place which endureth forever..."

It is Krishna's Supreme Abode. (Gita, p. 106)

 

Expanding further Krishna declares:

 

"It is even a portion of myself which, having assumed life in this

world of conditioned existence, draweth together the five senses and

the mind in order that it may obtain a body and may leave it again.

And those are carried by the Sovereign Lord to and from whatever body

he enters or quits, even as the breeze bears the fragrance from the

flower."

 

"Presiding over the eye, the ear, the touch, the taste, and the power

of smelling, and also over the mind, he experienceth the objects of

sense."

 

"The deluded do not see the Spirit when it quitteth or remains in the

body, nor when, moved by the [three] qualities it has experience in

the world. But those who have the eye of wisdom perceive it, and

devotees who industriously strive to do so, see it dwelling in their

own hearts; whilst those who have not overcome themselves, who are

devoid of discrimination, see it not, even though they strive

thereafter...I am in the hearts of all men, and from me come memory,

knowledge, and also the loss of both..." (Gita, pp. 106-7)

 

Two kinds of beings are in the world: the divisible, which are "all

things and the creatures;" and the indivisible, which is the Supreme

Spirit—Paramatma—"which permeates and sustains the three worlds...He

who...knoweth me thus as the Supreme Spirit, knoweth all things."

(Gita, p. 108)

 

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Ashwatta (banyan/fig) tree is considered to be very sacred and

worshipped as the abode of the trimurthis reside as the following

sloka states:

 

Moolatho Brahma Roopaya, Madhyato Vishnu Roopini, Agratas Shiv

Roopaya, Vriksha Rajayte Namaha

 

Brahma shaped at the root, Vishnu shaped in the middle and Shiva

shaped at the top, we salute you, the king of all trees.

 

Krishna extolled the Ashwatta tree in Bhagavadgita (Ch. 10. 26)

 

Ashwattah sarva vrikshanaam, devarsheenaancha naaradah,

Gandharvaanaam chitra ratah, siddhaanaam kapilo munihi.

 

Ashvwatta the tree of trees, Naarada the supreme deva rishi

Chitrarata the supreme Gandharva, and Kapila the supreme siddha.

 

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"Rather look about you and you shall see Him

playing with your children.

 

And look into space; you shall see Him walking in

the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning

and descending in rain.

 

You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising

and waving His hands in trees. "

 

Gibran - ON RELIGION

 

Harihi AUM !

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