Fifteenth Teaching
The Ultimate Supreme Person
Krishna:
Roots above, branches below, the realm of sorrow is the world tree, sages say; its leaves are sacred hymns.
Its branches, stretching below and above and nourished by gunas, bud in sense objects; its aerial roots tangled in actions reach downward into the world of men.
Its vast form is unknown to the [...]
Fourteenth Teaching
Nature’s (Prakriti’s) Three Qualities (Gunas)
1-20
Krishna:
I shall teach you further about true knowledge, ultimate knowledge, that all the sages have mastered and then reached perfection.
Resorting to this knowledge, they follow my ways; when the world is created they are not reborn, when the world dissolves they suffer no sorrow.
Nature is my womb; in it I [...]
The Thirteenth Teaching
The Field and the Field Knower
1-6
What is the Self–the “Knower of the field?”
What is the “field?”
The body is the field; the one who watches whatever happens within it is called the Knower.
Know me as the field-knower in every body; genuine knowledge is knowing both the field and its Knower.
Listen from me [...]