Bhagvad-Gita: Treatise of self-help by BS Murthy                                                                       <<Back to Chapter 14 Chapter-15: Art of Liberation          This unique chapter of 20 slokas, known as purushottama praapti yoga, Realization of the Supreme.S9, s12, s13, s14 and s15 being digressions are clearly interpolations. Beginning with the parable of world as a fig tree, it later deals with the indwelling spirit and the Supreme Spirit, and the perishable man and the imperishable Purusha (Supreme Spirit). 1      Thus spoke the Lord: Wise see Nature as fig tree huge Roots its planted in high skies Branching down with Vedic leaves   Helps which man reach State Supreme. 2      So to feed on their organs With its downward roots it ties Beings all to mundane things, With man being charged by wants Supplies he the feed it needs Through the knots of threefold ways. 3      Man as fails to lay his hands Roots on those that entwine him Helps dispassion sunder them. 4      Roots as sundered,one gets freed To reach the Vedic branch in reach, Grasps as he the truth there all Goes he up from branch to branch  To end up on the root utmost  On which Abode Supreme lies.        5      Freed of pride, desire ’n delusion Climbs as he, in self he dwells, Feels he same of pleasure ’n pain Detached he reaches thus Supreme.     6      Sun too doth pale nears it when Seat of moksha, Abode of Mine.  7      Spirit as lies in being all Gets it rubbed with one’s nature. 8      Wind as carries scent of flowers While leaving them as is where, In like fashion Spirit from frames Moves its awareness to rebirths. 10    Know not fools in lifetime theirs Nature of Spirit thus lies in them  But ever on move from frame to frame.  11    This by striving wise realize  Fail though naive in spite of it.   16    Perish all beings though in time Perishes not the Spirit in them. 17 Self Mine Highest that sustains  Is but different from that One. 18    Since I transcend that perishes   Apart ’n above the eternal One Vedas vouch Me Soul Supreme.  19    Who aver Me as Soul Supreme In My worship bring they faith. 20 Grasps who nuances of this science Turns he wise ’n accomplished thus.   Ends thus: Art of Liberation, The Fifteenth Chapter  Of Bhagavad-Gita, Treatise of self-help.      (cont...)  <<Back to Chapter 14 Introduction  Chapter 1   Chapter 2    Chapter 3    Chapter 4    Chapter 5    Chapter 6  Chapter 7  Chapter 8    Chapter 9   Chapter 10 Chapter 11   Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14  Chapter 15  Chapter 16  Chapter 17  Chapter 18 Hinduism main page