Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

  ========================================================================================================= Monday 13, January 2025, 09:40. Srimad Bhagavad Gita The Tree of Life: 1.5. Discourse 1: The Twofold Character of Cosmic Life-5. Swami Krishnananda. ========================================================================================= The comparison that the Bhagavadgita gives is significant. The growth of the tree is from the seed towards its trunk and branches and the various ramifications thereof. There is the impulse of external expression in the tree. It moves towards the sky, if we can take the example of our own trees on Earth. The seed of the tree bursts forth in the direction of an external expression of itself. The tendency of the seed is not to hibernate but to develop the roots and the tendril of the large tree that it is to become later on. The sap which is hidden in the seed urges itself forward in external forms, searching for the light of the sun in extend...