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Chapter-15
Purushottam Yog
1: The Supreme Personality of
Godhead said: It is said that there is an imperishable
banyan tree that has its roots upward and its branches
down and whose leaves are the Vedic hymns. One who know
this tree is the knower of the Vedas.
2: The branches of this tree extend downward and
upward, nourished by the three modes of material nature.
The twigs are the objects of the senses. This tree also
has roots going down, and these are bound to the
fruitive actions of human society.
3-4: The real form of this tree cannot be perceived
in this world. No one can understand where it ends,
where it begins, or where its foundation is. But with
determination one must cut down this strongly rooted
tree with determination one must cut down this strongly
rooted tree with the weapon of detachment. Thereafter,
one must seek that place from which, having gone, one
never returns, and there surrender to that Supreme
Personality of Godhead from whom everything began and
from whom everything has extended since time immemorial.
5: Those who are free from false prestige, illusion
and false association, who understand the eternal, who
are done with material lust, who are freed from the
dualities of happiness and distress, and who,
unbewildered, know how to surrender unto the Supreme
Person attain to that eternal kingdom.
6: The supreme abode of Mine is not illuminated by
the sun or moon, nor by fire or electricity. Those who
reach it never return to this material world.
7: The living entities in this conditioned world
are My eternal fragmental parts. Due to conditioned
life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses,
which include the mind.
8: The living entity in the material world carries
his different conception of life from one body to
another, as the air carries aromas. Thus he takes one
kind of body and again quits it to take another.
9: The living entity, thus taking another gross
body, obtains a certain type of ear, eye, tongue, nose
and sense of touch, which are grouped about the mind. He
thus enjoys a particular set of sense objects.
10: The foolish cannot understand how a living
entity can quit his body, nor can they understand what
sort of body he enjoys under the spell of the modes of
nature. But one whose eyes are trained in knowledge can
see all this.
11: The endeavoring transcendentalist, who are
situated in self-realization, can see all this clearly.
But those whose minds are not developed and who are not
situated in self-realization cannot see what is taking
place, though they may try.
12: The splendor of the sun, which dissipates the
darkness of this whole world, comes from Me. And the
splendor of the moon and the splendor of fire are also
from Me.
13: I enter into each planet, and by My energy they
stay in orbit. I become the moon and thereby supply the
juice of life to all vegetables.
14: I am the fire of digestion in the bodies of all
living entities, and I join with the air of life,
outgoing and incoming, to digest to four kinds of
foodstuff.
15: I am seated in everyone’s heart, and from Me
come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness. By all
the Vedas, I am to be known. Indeed, I am the compiler
of Vedanta, and I am the knower of the Vedas.
16: There are two classes of beings, the fallible
and the infallible. In the material world every living
entity is fallible, and in the spiritual world every
living entity is called infallible.
17: Besides these two, there is the greatest living
personality, the Supreme Soul, the imperishable Lord
Himself, who has entered the three worlds and is
maintaining them.
18: Because I am transcendental, beyond both the
fallible and the infallible, and because I am the
greatest, I am celebrated both in the world and in the
Vedas as the Supreme Person.
19: Whoever knows Me as the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, without doubting, is the knower of everything.
He therefore engages himself in full devotional service
to Me, O son of Bharatas.
20: This is the most confidential part of the Vedic
scriptures, O sinless one, and it is disclosed now by
Me. Whoever understands this will become wise, and his
endeavors will know perfection.
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