Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 15
The Supreme Person
Puruṣottama Yoga
An inverted tree, and what lies beyond the perishable.
Bhagavad Gītā, Chapter 15 (traditional text)
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What happens
The famous image opens the chapter: a tree whose roots are above and branches below, to be cut with the axe of non-attachment. The teaching then names a supreme person beyond both change and changelessness.
Key ideas
What this chapter turns on
- Detachment
- The perishable
- The supreme
- The Self
- Detachment
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Explanation — written by Frenly Divine, not scripture
Krishna uses the image of a tree with roots above to describe the world, and distinguishes the perishable, the imperishable and what surpasses both.
Reflect
Something to sit with
- What are you rooted in that you did not choose?