Sri bhagavan uvaca
Urdhva-mulam adhah-sakham asvattham prahur avyayam
Chandamsi yasya parnani yas tam veda sa veda-vit
The Lord Almighty said, “The person, who understands the universe which is like a holy Peepal tree with the supreme soul as its roots and Brahma rup as its main hranches and which is known as indestructible and with the vedas as its leaves, that person in fact understands the meaning of the vedas.
(1)
Adhas cordhvam prasrtas tasya sakha
guna-pravrddha visaya-pravalah
Adhas ca mulany anusantatani
Karmanubandhinni manusya-loke
The enormous branches of the universal holy tree coming out of ‘Kapolo’ of the human perceptions and the human experience through the senses watered by the tree guna and manifested in the human beings, deities and the demons are ever expanding and pervade the entire universe. And the miniscule roots in the form of human ego, affection and the longing and desire to are pervading below and above in the entire universe.
(2)
Na rupam asyeha tathopalabhyate
nanto na cadir na ca sampratistha
Asvattham enam suvirudha-mulam
asanga-sastrenna drdhena chittva
This world in the form of the holy tree is difficult to even imagine by the human mind. Because the form of this tree whether has a beginning nor an end. Nor the form itself remains fixed or the same. Therefore one should cat this tree full of pride, affection attachment and desire with total freedom from worldly desires and attachments.
(3)
Tatah padam tat parimargitavyam
yasmin gata na nivartanti bhuyah
Tam eva cadyam purusam prapadye
yatah pravrttih prasrta purani
Thereafter one must try to search wholeheartedly the Lord Almighty who embraces all those who earnestly desire to reach him and these seekers once merged do not come back. One should have firm faith in Him the Almighty and consider onself to have taken refuge, and should remember Him again and again.
(4)
Nirmana-moha jita-sanga-dosa
adhyatma-nitya vinivrtta-kamah
dvandvair vimuktah sukha-duhkha-samjnair
gacchanty amudhah padam avyayam tat
The person who doesnot hanker after false dignity and who has acquired the devine knowledge to shed off the ignorance and is no longer attached with any material worldly objects, who has killed all his desires; such a knowledgeable person alone achieves the supreme the Almighty.
(5)
Na tad bhasayate suryo na sasanko na pavakah
Yad gatva na nivartante tad dhama paramam mama
The Prime Abode where from no one ever returns to this world is self illuminated and no sun or moon or tire can ever illuminate mine Prime Abode.
(6)
Mamaivamso jiva-loke jiva-bhutah sanatanah
Manah sasthanindriyani prakrti-sthani karsati
The soul in this human body is in fact is my own faction. And the same soul is wooed by the mind and the five senses which are part of this nature.
(7)
Sariram yad avapnoti yac capy utkramatisvarah
Grhitvaitani samyati vayur gandhan ivasayat
Just as the aire adopts the smell of a place and carries with it likewise the soul at the time of leaving a body carries with it the mind and the senses into the new body.
(8)
Srotram caksuh sparsanam ca rasanam ghranam eva ca
Adhisthaya manas cayam visayan upasevate
The individual soul in man with the association of mind, tongue, skin and other senses perceives the worldly pleasures and pains.
(9)
Utkramantam sthitam vapi bhunjanam va gunanvitam
Vimudha nanupasyanti pasyanti jnana-caksusah
Only knowledgeable and the wise realises and perceives this soul in his body consuming the pleasures and pains embodying all the three gunas. The ignorant cannot have any such experience.
(10)
Yatanto yoginas cainam pasyanty atmany avasthitam
Yatanto py akrtatmano nainam pasyanty acetasah
Yogis who make deliberate efforts too are able to perceive the essence of the soul. But others who have not purified their minds are not able to perceive even after great efforts.
(11)
Yad aditya-gatam tejo jagad bhasayate khilam
Yac candramasi yac cagnau tat tejo viddhi mamakam
The glory present in the sun which enlightens the entire world and the one present in the moon in fact is nothing but My own Glory.
(12)
Gam avisya ca bhutani dharayamy aham ojasa
Pusnami causadhih sarvah somo bhutva rasatmakah
I through my devine powers enter the earth, engulf all being and I am responsible for producing all vegetation and the medicines.
(13)
Aham vaisvanaro bhutva praninnam deham asritah
Pranapana-samayuktah pacamy annam catur-vidham
I am responsible for the digestion of all foods in the body through combination of devine intelligence and the body’s requirement which are classified in four different ways.
(14)
Sarvasya caham hrdi sannivistho
mattah smrtir jnanam apohanam ca
Vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyo
vedanta-krd veda-vid eva caham
I am present in the minds of all beings since I am omnipresent. I am responsible for memory, devine wisdom and discretion that dispels all doubts. And with the help of the devine vedas I am worthy of being knowing. In fact I am the does in the spiritual sense and hold entire knowledge of the vedas.
(15)
Dvav imau purusau loke ksaras caksara eva ca
Ksarah sarvani bhutani kutastho ksara ucyate
In this world there are two types of human beings. The bodies of all living beings are mortal or destructible. But the soul of there living creatures is immortal or beyond destruction.
(16)
Uttamah purusas tv anyah paramatmety udahrtah
Yo loka-trayam avisya bibharty avyaya isvarah
However, the supreme and the superior to both these two types is responsible for the maintenance and life of all living beings is the Prime Soul or the Lord Almighty.
(17)
Yasmat ksaram atito ham aksarad api cottamah
Ato smi loke vede ca prathitah purusottamah
Because I am beyond the mortal body and also beyond the immortal soul, therefore I am know as the Prime Soul or Purushotaman in the holy scriptures the vedas.
(18)
Yo mam evam asammudho janati purusottamam
Sa sarva-vid bhajati mam sarva-bhavena bharata
Bharat (Arjun) the wise knowledgeable person who realises in essense that I am the Prime Lord ‘Purushotaman’, he always remembers me as such throughout his life.
(19)
Iti guhyatamam sastram idam uktam mayanagha
Etad buddhva buddhiman syat krta-krtyas ca bharata
Arjun, I have told you in this manner the most secret knowledge. After acquiring this knowledge the wise becomes emancipated or attains salvation.
(20)