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Chapter 15
Purushottama Yoga
Tatparya Nirnaya :- The roots being distinct, Sri Hari is the World-Tree, even as the earth. Attributes like satva and consciousness and non-consciousness are the principal roots. Even here the association of consciousness and non-consciousness is similar to the tree. The earth, like the gods, elevates the non-conscious and He Himself being supreme is unwavering like the upright root. The lowly ones bound by the great sense of ego, get attached to the elements. The leaves are those which conceal (Chhandanmsi) the fruits, being the desires for liberation.
2. Branches stretch below and above nourished by attributes and sense objects as branches extend downwards spread like the roots in the world of human beings as performance of action.
Bhashya :- Since the self exists in subtle form in the bodies of the creatures, it is said to have spread upwards and downwards. Attributes are saatvic and the rest. Being pleasant during experience, they are referred as sprouts. The roots are the different forms of divine resplendence. The Resplendent Lord grants fruits according to the performance of the actions. “In this World-Tree, the Brahman has entered as the principal root thereof with Prakriti as the subsidiary roots. The attributes like satva are the consequent roots. Elements are the branches; hymns are the leaves. Gods and the Human beings are the smaller branches. From the leaves, verily, do the fruits come about, some becoming fibrous roots. In this (Ashwattha tree) there are fruits of liberation as well as of non-liberation; juices of liberation as well as of non-liberation, unmanifest branches as well as the manifest; unmanifest roots as well as the manifest. Of this Ashwattha the attributes are like the sprouting leaves, pleasant as well as unpleasant. This does not otherwise come to happen nor does it not happen at all”, thus in Bhallava Section
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