Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-15
The Supreme Person
Its roots grow up at the top, and so it cannot be uprooted. For this reason it is evergreen. Though it is said to have roots at the top, it has also numerous roots downwards. This tree has shot up rapidly all around like the holy Indian fig tree, and its shoots have also put forth branches. So, O Arjuna, it is not that this tree has branches only downwards, but its numerous branches have spread upwards also (56-60). It looks as though the sky has put forth foliage or the wind has taken the form of this tree or the three states of creation, sustenance and dissolution have become incarnate in the form of this tree. In this way this top-rooted tree has grown thick in the form of the universe. Now you may ask, who is at the top of this tree, what is its origin, what are its characteristics, why this tree spreads downwards, what are its branches, what are the branches of its downward roots and how do they grow, why it is called Asvattha and what purport has been found in all this, by the knowers of Self (61-65). All these queries I shall explain in such a way, that you will realise them fully. Oh lucky Arjuna, you alone are fit to enquire into all this, so gather all your sense organs in the ears and hear. Hearing these words of the Yadava hero brimful with affection, Arjuna became all attention. |
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