About this episode
Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches verses 1-4 from the fifteenth chapter, entitled Purushottama Yoga, the Yoga of the Supreme Being, of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks by Swami Sarvapriyananda on the Bhagavad Gita, 'the Song of God,' unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta.____________Chapter 15, Verse 1????????????? |???????????:??????????? ????????????? |???????? ???? ??????? ????? ??? ? ??????? || 1||?hr?-bhagav?n uv?cha?rdhva-m?lam adha?-?h?kham a?hvattha? pr?hur avyayamchhand?nsi yasya par??ni yas ta? veda sa veda-vit? The Blessed Lord said, "They speak of the immutable Ashwatham tree, with its roots above and its branches below, whose leaves are the Vedas." He who knows it is the knower of the Vedas.Chapter 15, Verse 2 ???????????? ????????????? ???????????????? ???????????: |????? ??????????????????????????????? ?????????? || 2||adha?h chordhva? pras?it?s tasya ?h?kh?gu?a-prav?iddh? vi?haya-prav?l??adha?h cha m?l?ny anusantat?nikarm?nubandh?ni manu?hya-loke? Its branches, nurtured by the gunas spread below and above, its shoots are the sense objects, and its rootlings are stretched below, producing actions in the world of men.Verse 3 & 4? ????????? ???????????????? ? ??????? ? ???????????? |??????????? ??????????????????????? ????? ???????? || 3||??: ??? ??????????????????????????? ? ?????????? ???: |???? ?????? ?????? ??????????: ?????????: ??????? ?????? || 4||na r?pam asyeha tathopalabhyaten?nto na ch?dir na cha samprati?h?h?a?hvattham ena? su-vir??ha-m?lamasa?ga-?hastre?a d?i?hena chhittv?tata? pada? tat parim?rgitavya?yasmin gat? na nivartanti bh?ya?tam eva ch?dya? puru?ha? prapadyeyata? prav?itti? pras?it? pur???? Its form as such is not experienced here, nor its end, nor its beginning, nor its continuity. Having severed this deep-rooted Ashwatha tree with the strong weapon of non-attachment, one should next seek that goal, reaching which they do not return, saying 'I seek refuge in that primordial Purusha from whom this eternal process has sprung.'
