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15 - Of Religion by Attaining the Supreme - Bhagavad Gita · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Chapter fifteen of Religion. By attaining the supreme Krishna. Men
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  Speaker 1: call the Ashwata the Banyan tree, which hath its boughs
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  Speaker 1: beneath its roots on high, the ever holy tree, yea,
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  Speaker 1: for its leaves are green and waving hymns which whisper truth.
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  Speaker 1: Who knoweth well the Ashwata knows. All its branches shoot
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  Speaker 1: to heaven and sink to earth, even as the deeds
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  Speaker 1: of men, which take their birth from qualities. Its silver
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  Speaker 1: sprays and blooms, and all the eager verdue of its
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  Speaker 1: girth leap to quick life at touch of sun and air,
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  Speaker 1: as men's lives quicken to the tempting sphere of wooing sense.
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  Speaker 1: Its hanging rootlets seek the soil beneath, helping to hold
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  Speaker 1: it there, as actions wrought amid the world of men
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  Speaker 1: bind them by ever tightening bonds. Again, if ye knew
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  Speaker 1: well the teaching of the tree, what its shape saith,
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  Speaker 1: and whence it springs, and then how it must end,
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  Speaker 1: and all the ills of it the acts of sharp detachment,
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  Speaker 1: ye would wet and cleave the clinging, snaky roots, and
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  Speaker 1: lay this Ashwata of sins like low to set new
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  Speaker 1: growths up, springing to that happier sky, which they who
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  Speaker 1: reach shall have no day to die, nor fade away,
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  Speaker 1: nor fall to him, I mean Father in first, who
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  Speaker 1: made the mystery of old creation. For to him come
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  Speaker 1: day from passion and from dreams, who break away, who
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  Speaker 1: part the bonds constraining them to flesh, and him, the
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  Speaker 1: highest worshipping away, no longer grow at mercy of what
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  Speaker 1: breeze of summer pleasure stirs the sleeping trees, what blast
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  Speaker 1: of tempest tears them bow and stem to the eternal
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  Speaker 1: world pass such as these, Another sun gleams there, another moon,
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  Speaker 1: another light, a light which none shall lack, whose eyes
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  Speaker 1: once see, For those return no more. They have attained
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  Speaker 1: my uttermost abode. When in this world of manifested life,
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  Speaker 1: the undying spirit, setting forth from me, taketh on form.
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  Speaker 1: It draweth to itself, from Being's storehouse, which containeth all
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  Speaker 1: senses and intellect, the sovereign soul, Thus entering the flesh
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  Speaker 1: or quitting it gathers these up as the wind gathers
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  Speaker 1: sense blowing above the flower banks, ear and eye, and
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  Speaker 1: touch and taste and smelling. These it takes yeah and
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  Speaker 1: a sentient mind, linking itself to sense, thinks. So the
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  Speaker 1: unenlightened ones mark not that spirit when he goes or comes,
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  Speaker 1: nor when he takes his pleasure in the form conjoined
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  Speaker 1: with qualities. But those see plain who have the eyes
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  Speaker 1: to see Holy Soul's Sea, which strive there too enlightened,
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  Speaker 1: they behold that spirit in themselves. But foolish ones, even
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  Speaker 1: though they strive, discern, not having hearts unkindled, ill informed,
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  Speaker 1: No two from me shineth the gathered glory of the sun,
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  Speaker 1: which lightens all the world. From me, the moon draws
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  Speaker 1: silvery beams and fire fierce loveliness. I penetrate the clay
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  Speaker 1: and lend all shapes their living force. I glide into
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  Speaker 1: the plant its root leaf bloom, to make the woodland green,
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  Speaker 1: with springing sap, becoming whiteal warmth. I glow in glad
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  Speaker 1: respiring frames, and pass with outward and with inward breadth,
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  Speaker 1: to feed the body with all meats. For in this
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  Speaker 1: world being is twofold, the divided one, the undivided one.
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  Speaker 1: All things that live are the divided that which sits apart,
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  Speaker 1: the undivided. Higher still is one, the highest holding all,
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  Speaker 1: whose name is Lord, the eternal, sovereign firm, who feels
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  Speaker 1: all worlds, sustaining them and dwelling thus beyond divided life
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  Speaker 1: and undivided I am called of men invade us, God Supreme,
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  Speaker 1: the Purushotama, who knows me. Thus with mind unclouded, knoweth all,
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  Speaker 1: dear Prince, and with his whole soul ever worshipeth me.
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  Speaker 1: Now is the sacred secret mystery declared to THEE who
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  Speaker 1: comprehendeth this hath wisdom. He is quit of works in bliss.
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  Speaker 1: Here ends Chapter fifteen.