Bhagavat Gita - 51

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Bhagavat Gita - 51

 

The Mystic Ashvatha tree (Chapter 15 verses 1-3)

 

Shri Krishna said: The created world is like a mighty peepal

tree, rooted above in the unseen, with the branches

apreading everywhere in the world of the seen. Entangled in

its branches, no one understands its source, nor does one

grasp the utter flimsy and momentary nature of the values

it yeilds. With the powerful weapon of non-attachment, cut,

O man, the taproots that bind you to it, and go to the

empyrean heights to seek Me, its source - the Supreme

Purushottama.

 

Trancendence and immanance of the Divine (Chapter 15 verses 4-15)

 

I am trancendent, beyond time and space, but yet immanent in

Nature and in all beings - as light in the sun and other

luminaries, as gravitation that keeps the galaxies in

position, as fertility in soil, as the digestive powers in

all living beings, and above all in the hearts of all as

the living spirit from whom life, memory, knowledge and

everything else proceed.

 

The Purushottama (Chapter 15 verses 16-20)

 

My being has a threefold aspect. As the changeful Matter I

constitute the bodies of all (Kshara Purusha). As the

unchanging Witness Consciousness, the Jiva, I dwell in all

these bodies (Akshara Purusha). But I am, above all, the

Purushottama (the Supreme Purusha), who manifests all these,

supports all these, indwells them all, and yet remains

the Trancendent Spirit, and iota even of whom is not

affected by all these manifestations. He who contemplates

on this mystery that I am the Supreme Purushottama, he

understands all and offers himself to Me with his whole

being.

 

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Based on " Srimad Bhagavat Gita - The Scripture of Mankind "

a translation by Rev Swami Tapasyanandaji, published by

Sri Ramakrishna Math - Chennai. http://www.sriramakrishnamath.org/

 

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