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Chapter 15
The performance of actions for their fruit leads to the cycle of birth and death—this is strengthening of this tree.
Here the Lord means to say, that a striver, instead of getting entangled in the leaves, in the form of performance of actions for their fruit, should depend only on God, the root of the tree. Having depended on God, he realizes the reality about the Vedas, which deal with the Supreme Being, rather than the world or heaven (Gita 15/15).[1]
Yastarh vela sa vedavit:- He who knows this tree, in the form of the universe, knows the reality, about the Vedas. The real knowledge of the world, consists in knowing the world, as kaleidoscopic and also having no desire of deriving any pleasure out of it. When a man realizes, that the world is transitory (unreal), he cannot derive any pleasure out of it. While enjoying the sense-objects, he does not realize the world, to be transitory. A man depends on the world and has a desire to derive pleasure, out of it only by regarding the worldly beings and objects, as real. When he realizes, its true character he has a disinclination for the world, and an inclination to God, and he realizes his identity, with God. Such a person, is a knower of the Vedas. The person who has only studied the Vedas, may be a scholar, but he has not really known, the Vedas. The real knower of the Vedas, is he who having renounced his affinity, for the world, has realized God.
The Lord in the fifteenth verse of this chapter, has declared that He Himself is the knower of the Vedas. Thus the Lord identifies, such a man, who knows the reality about the world, with Him by calling him a knower of the Vedas. It means, that discrimination bestowed upon human beings, is so glorious that a person having known the reality about the world can become the knower of the Vedas, like God.[2] The man (soul), being a frrment of God, has only affinity, for God. He has assumed his affinity for the world by an error. He, who through discrimination having rectified this error i.e., having renounced his assumed affinity, for the world, has realized his self-evident identity, with God, knows the reality about the tree in the form of the world, and he has been called 'Vedavif (the knower of the Vedas), by the Lord.
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