Purushottama Yoga

The world as an upside-down tree, rooted above and branching below. Cut it with the axe of detachment, says Krishna. Find the root.

All 20 verses below.

Verses

• 15.1Understanding the world-tree is the beginning of true understanding.
• 15.2Craving and action keep the world-tree growing in every direction.
• 15.3What traps you has no fixed form; detachment cuts it cleanly.
• 15.4The final refuge is a state where return itself stops.
• 15.5Freedom begins when pride, craving, and inner division fall away.
• 15.6The highest home is beyond every ordinary light and beyond return.
• 15.7What is eternal gets pulled around by what changes.
• 15.8The body changes, but the carried pattern moves on.
• 15.9Experience passes through mind and senses; it does not define the true self.
• 15.10What changes is seen by the wise; the true self is not what moves.
• 15.11Seeing the supreme reality depends on inner purification, not effort alone.
• 15.12Every brightness in the world points back to one source.
• 15.13Life is nourished from within by the same presence that holds it together.
• 15.14The divine is already working inside your body as life itself.
• 15.15The deepest knowing comes from the one already dwelling within every heart.
• 15.16What changes is not the whole of you.
• 15.17Even the imperishable witness is not the final reality.
• 15.18The highest reality lies beyond both change and permanence.
• 15.19Clear seeing of the Supreme Self becomes total devotion.
• 15.20Secret knowledge makes a person complete.