![]() ![]() ![]() Having felled and split this Tree with the great sword of Knowledge, and then attaining the bliss of the Self, one does not return from that (bliss).’ (Cf. And this verily is the resort of Brahman in it Brahman dwells for ever. This eternal Tree presided over by Brahman is a means of livelihood to all creatures. It has virtue and vice as its beautiful flowers, and happiness and sorrow are the fruits it bears. The great elements are its boughs so also, it has the objects of perception as its leaves. ![]() And it has abundance of intelligence as its trunk, and the appertures of the organs as the hollows. In the Purana also we have: It sprouts from the Root in the form of the Unmanifest it grows through the sturdiness of that very One. This accords with the Upanisadic text, ‘This has its roots above and branches below’ (Ka. The Tree of the World which is such, is urdhva-mulam. Urdhva-mulam, that which has its roots upwards:- Brahman, possessed of the unmanifest power in the form of Maya, is referred to by the word ‘upward’ because of Its subtleness in point of time by virtue of Its being the Cause, and also because of Its eternality and vastness and That is the root (mulam) of this world. ![]()
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