THE TREE OF LIFE : 2.10. SWAMI KRISHNANANDA

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03/01/2020.
2.The Search For Wholeness - 10.
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But when does this unhappiness leave us so that we become happy? It is when this object is united with us, when the percentage of ourselves which is apparently the object outside, whether physical or psychological, joins with us and becomes a part of us so that we become one hundred percent. When we become one hundred percent, we become happy. If there is even one percent outside us as a visible or conceptual object, we are in a state of unhappiness.
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Now, this wholeness or hundred in our consciousness that we have obtained a hundred percent of alpercent of being is a state of mind. It is an awareness, it is a thought, it is a consciousness. We must be convinced l the values of life. A leaf in a tree should be aware that it is a part of the whole tree, and the whole tree is in it. A finger of the body is healthy and seems to be contented because the whole of the body is associated with it and it has a subtle experience within itself of its being sustained by the whole body and of its being a vital, inseparable part of the whole body. The health of a personality and the happiness of a person depend upon this consciousness of wholeness which is what we are seeking in life, and we are not seeking anything else—and ‘not anything else’ is to be underlined again and again.
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So when we are told that we have to be aware of the whole tree of life in order to be perfect in our lives, we are asked to go into the nature of the higher knowledge in which the tree of life is rooted. In the Upanishad especially, we are told that we should have the knowledge of the whole tree. The knowledge of this tree is liberation. But the Bhagavadgita says something quite different.

Our salvation lies in our ability to cut at the very root of this tree by the axe of detachment :

Srimad Bhagavad Gita : Chapter-15. Slokam-3.

"Na  rupamasyeah  tathopalabyate nanto  na  cadirna  ca  sampratishtha,

asvatthamenam  suviruddhamulam asamngasastrena  grddhena  citva."


Iha  asya   rupam  =  here  the  specified  form  of  tree  of  samsaram;

tatha  na  upalabhyate  =  could  not  be  seen  as  said  above;

antah  na  adi  ca  na  =  not  only  that,  the  end  of  that;

sampratishtha  ca  na  =  it  is  not  known  the  beinning  and  the  status /foundation;

su-virudha-mulam  =  strongly  rooted;

enam  asvattham  =  this  banion  tree;

drdhena  asanga-sastrena   =  by  the  strong  weapon  of  detachment;

chittva  =  by  cutting. 


# "asamngasastrena  grddhena  citva" = Both these terms of advice have a meaning in themselves.
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As I endeavoured to point out, this tree of life has a twofold feature, namely, rootedness in the Absolute and manifestation in space and time. The aspect of its rootedness in God is what requires us to know the whole of this tree, and the aspect of its expression in space and time is that which is to be cut by the axe of detachment. The knowledge of this tree is our source attachment to God, and our detachment from the externalised form of this tree consists in our withdrawal of our external consciousness and the centring of it in our universality of being.
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2.The Search For Wholeness
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