Bhagvad-Gita: Treatise of Self-help - 15

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Chapter 15 Art of Liberation This unique chapter of 20 slokas, is known as purushottama prãpti 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