The Fifteenth Teaching
Fifteenth Teaching The Ultimate Supreme Person Krishna: Roots above, branches below, the realm of sorrow is the world tree, sages say; its leaves are sacred hymns. Its branches, stretching below and above and nourished by gunas, bud in sense objects; its aerial roots tangled in actions reach downward into the world of men. Its vast form is unknown to the men in the world; unknown is the extent of its end and its beginning. Cut down this deep-rooted tree with the sharp ax of detachment; then search for that primal One from whom the whole universe flows. Find him in the place that one enters without returning; without arrogance or delusion intent on the Self alone, serene with attachment overcome, desires extinguished, freed from dualities, from joy and suffering, wise men reach that realm beyond change. Neither...
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