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Part XV: Consciousness of the Supreme.1477
Part XV: Consciousness of the Supreme.
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nce more, spake Krishna, the Blessed Lord, unto Arjuna, saying:
“The Ashwattha, the sacred tree, the symbol of the Universe in our
teachings, is said to be indestructible. Its roots are above, and its branches
are below. Its leaves are the Vedas, or Sacred Writings. He who knowest this,
knowest the Vedas. Its branches grow out of the Three Qualities, or Gunas;
and their lesser shoots or twigs are the organs of sense, some spreading
forth high up, and others down low. The roots which are spreading abroad
below, on the plane of men, are the bonds of action.
“Its form is beyond the knowledge of men; as is its beginning, its end, or
its connections. When this mighty tree is finally cut down by the strong axe
of Discriminative Non-Attachment, in spite of its strongly fixed roots—then
the destroyer of that tree shalt seek for that place from which there is no
more return to re-birth, for that place is the One Supreme Soul, from which
floweth out the Soul immanent in and animating all things.
“There be those who, having freed themselves from pride, ignorance and
delusion, have overcome those faults which arise from attachments to action.
They employ their minds constantly in contemplation of the Real Self, and
thus are restrained from inordinate desires, and made free from attraction
of the Pairs of Opposites, and from the attendant effect of these which are