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The Tree of Life - 3.4 : Swami Krishnananda

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======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19/02/2020. Discourse 3: Severing the Root of this Tree of Life - 4. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #In certain scriptures we are told that knowledge of this tree is the knowledge of the Absolute, so that it is identified with some aspect of Ultimate Reality itself.  #But the Bhagavadgita wants us to cut at the root of this tree with the axe of non-attachment.  ##The Gita is oftentimes known as Anasakti yoga, the yoga of detachment or non-attachment, and the whole of yoga is only this much, at least from one point of view.  #It is an art of detachment. But it is not merely a negative process of withdrawal of something from something else. That is why we have b...