Yoga

 

 

Presence.

From the Bhagavad-Gita.

 

 

The Blessed Lord / Lady (my addition) said : ‘There is a banyan tree which has its roots upward and its branches down and whose leaves are the Vedic hymns. One who knows this tree is the knower of the Vedas.’

 

 

 

The branches of the tree extend downward and upward, nourished by the three modes of material nature. The twigs are the objects of the senses. This tree also has roots going down and these are bound to the actions of humanity.

 

 

The real form of this tree cannot be perceived in this world. No one can understand where it ends, where it begins, or where its foundation is. But with determination one must cut down this tree with the weapon of detachment. So doing, one must seek that place from which, having once gone, one never returns, and there surrender to that supreme Personality of Godhead from whom everything has begun and in whom everything has begun and in whom everything is abiding since time immemorial.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arjuna said : O my dear Krsna, I wish to know about Prakrti (nature), Purusa (the enjoyer), and the Field and the knower of the Field, and of knowledge and the end of knowledge. The blessed Lord / Lady then said : This body, O son of Kunti, is called the Field, and one who knows this body is called the knower of the Field.