- The Yoga of the Supreme Person
- Mystery of the all-pervading person
- Purushothama Yoga
- The Supreme being, the supreme spirit, the super-soul, The Father, Mother, Ishwara. Para brahma, paramatma. The Supreme Spirit is the source & root of everything.
- The Roots are the supreme spirit
- The trunk is Atma or Brahman
- Cosmos are the branches
- Holy books / scriptures are the leaves
- Individual souls are the fruits & flowers.
- Everything in the universe has its origin in Brahman
- The creation / world is changeable, ever changing and does not last forever. Atma/Paramatma are "akshar" / unchangeable.
- The gunas feed the sense organs and that sustains the cycle of samsara
- There is a mention how the memories (built up thru senses) go along with atma to next life. Just like air carries the scent of flowers.
- Sansar Varnan ( Universe & the Tree)
- Very huge / vast
- When inside , cause is invisible. Cant see start of it - roots!
- Many branches ( lokas)
- Occupied by many living beings ( birds & bees & insects)
- Birds & bees consume fruits of tree (Jiva's Karma & their fruits)
- Leaves cover the tree ( scriptures protect the universe)
- Inexplainable : Seed & Tree ( Chicken & egg)
- Eternal. Nityam. Forever
- Moves with wind. ( Karma / Jiva moves with the mind)
- Tree if uprooted ceases to be. Jiva with gyana is liberated. Gyan leads to detachment & that is the axe to cut free.
- 20 shlokas
- 15.1-15.3 : The Mystic Asvatha Tree
- 15.4-15.15 : Transcendence & Immanence of the divine
- Vairagya is the tool to break free from samsara. Steps to practice Vairagya
- Accept the dwandha ref Sukh & Dukh
- Free from pride & delusion
- Reduce expectations and target to be free from desire
- Overcome attachment (awareness)
- Measure your spiritual progress
- Distance from worldly affairs
- 15.10 : Taking things for what they are not. Or Not taking things for what they are.
- 15.16-15.20 : The Purushotama
- Knowing that the world and gross body etc are all temporary & changeable and becoming aware of the only permanent indestructible supreme being.
- Living in sansar as sansari is like a hamster and its wheel, always moving and still there.
- The quest to know more than & beyond the tree (sansar) and its origin etc.
Summary in poetry
I support all beings by my strength so prime
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A story related to the message
Know this eternal truth that the individualized Self
Is nothing but an eternal part of Myself
In the body with five senses and the mind, I reside
Providing vitality for all beings, everything I preside
Those who possess the divine eye
Behold ME and contemplate so high
In the sun, moon and fire, know that light to be mine
Related Q&A
Q. Why has the saṁsāra been represented as a ‘vṛkṣa’ (tree)?
A. Saṁsāra is represented as a tree (vṛkṣa) because of the etymological meaning of the Sanskrit term ‘vṛkṣa’ – ‘that which can be cut down’.
The experiences of change and sorrow that the world of plurality gives us can be totally ended through detachment. The ‘tree of saṁsāra’ that has seemingly sprung forth from the Infinite Consciousness Divine, can be cut down by shifting our attention from the tree to the Divine.
It is thus for the purpose of indicating that saṁsāra can be ended that it is represented as a ‘vṛkṣa’ (tree).
A story related to the message
A Story of Baby Krishna
Baby Krishna had an elder half-brother named Balarāma. Both played together in the village of Gokul. Krishna’s birth mother’s name was Devaki. His father’s name was Vasudeva. Krishna is also called Vāsudeva. Krishna spent His childhood years under the care of Aunty Yashodā. Both Balarāma and Krishna were the favorites of the village milkmaids. Their mothers loved them proudly. Yasodā and Rohini (Balarāma’s mother) dressed their young boys colorfully, Krishna in yellow with a crown of peacock feathers in His hair, and Balarāma in blue. The two boys went from place to place, making friends wherever they went. Most of the time they got into a lot of trouble!
One day, they were playing outside with a few of the other village boys, digging in the dirt, making mud pies, and getting very dirty. After a while, one of the older boys ran to mother Yashodā and said, “Krishna has been a bad boy, He has been eating clay!” Yashodā was annoyed with her young son. She had also been hearing other complaints from villagers that Krishna had been stealing butter from their houses. She came out of her house and asked
Krishna angrily, “Did you really eat clay, Krishna? How many times have I told you not to put things in your mouth!”Krishna didn’t want to be punished, so he played a trick on mother Yashodā. He opened His mouth wide and said, “See, Mother, I haven’t been eating anything. These boys are just lying to get me in trouble.”
Yashodā looked inside Krishna’s mouth. There, in the little boy’s mouth, she saw the whole universe---Earth and stars, the wide empty space, the entire galaxy and the Milky Way, the oceans and the mountains, the Sun and the Moon. All were contained within His mouth. She realized then that Krishna was Lord Vishnu incarnate, and she was about to fall before Him and worship.
But Krishna didn’t want her to worship Him. He just wanted her to love Him the way mothers love their children. He could have come to earth in any form to fight the demons, but He liked being a little boy to a mother and a father who had performed many difficult spiritual practices to have God as their child. Baby Krishna realized that His trick had been a big mistake!
Quickly, He spread His power of Māyā over her. The next minute Yashodā was holding her son as usual, with no memory at all of what she had just seen in Krishna’s mouth.
The Story of Shri RamaKrishna
The Lord came to this earth as RamaKrishna, born on February 18, 1836, in the village Kamarpukur of West Bengal. Most of the stories I have told you are from his “Tales and Parables of Shri RamaKrishna.” Swami Vivekananda was one of his most famous disciples. Swami Vivekananda was the first Hindu monk who came to the USA in 1893. He established the Vedanta Society in New York. RamaKrishna led a very simple life, depending on God for his daily food and other necessities of life. He would not accept any money. He was married to Sarada Ma, whom he treated like his mother and never had any child. Sarada Ma used to tell her disciples: “If you want peace of mind, do not look into others’ faults; rather, look into your own. No one is a stranger; the whole world is your own.” Sarada Ma also warned her disciples not to be too close with persons of the opposite gender, even if God came in that form. RamaKrishna worshipped Goddess Kali as his personal deity in a temple at Dakshineshvar near Kolkata. This temple still exists today.
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