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    "title": "Discourse 15: The Yoga of the Supreme Spirit",
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    "text": "## Discourse 15: The Yoga of the Supreme Spirit\n\n\nVerse 15:1: The Blessed Lord said: With roots above, branches below, the Asvattha is said \nto be indestructible; the leaves of it are hymns; he who knoweth it is a Veda-knower. \n\nVerse 15:2: Downwards and upwards spread the branches of it, nourished by the qualities; \nthe objects of the senses its buds; and its roots grow downwards, the bonds of action in the \nworld of men. \n\nVerse 15:3: Nor here may be acquired knowledge of its form, nor its end, nor its origin, nor \nits rooting place; this strongly rooted Asvattha having been cut down, by the unswerving \nweapon of non-attachment. \n\nVerse 15:4: That path beyond may be sought, treading which there is no return. I go indeed \nto that Primal Man, whence the ancient energy forth-streamed. \n\nVerse 15:5: Without pride and delusion, victorious over the vice of attachment, dwelling \nconstantly in the Self, desire pacified, liberated from the pairs of opposites known as \npleasure and pain, they tread, undeluded, that indestructible path. \n\nVerse 15:6: Nor doth the sun lighten there, nor moon, nor fire; having gone thither they \nreturn not; that is My supreme abode. \n\nVerse 15:7: A portion of Mine own Self, transformed in the world of life into an immortal \nSpirit, draweth round itself the senses of which the mind is the sixth, veiled in matter. \n\nVerse 15:8: When the Lord acquireth a body and when He abandoneth it, He seizeth these \nand goeth with them, as the wind takes fragrances from their retreats. \n\nVerse 15:9: Enshrined in the ear, the eye, the touch, the taste and the smell, and in the mind \nalso, He enjoyeth the objects of the senses. \n\nVerse 15:10: The deluded do not perceive (Him) when He departeth or stayeth, or enjoyeth, \nswayed by the qualities; the wisdom-eyed perceive. \n\nVerse 15:11: Yogis also, struggling, perceive Him, established in the Self; but though \nstruggling the unintelligent perceive Him not, their selves untrained. \n\nVerse 15:12: That splendour issuing from the sun that enlighteneth the whole world, that \nwhich is in the moon and in fire, that splendour know as from Me. \n\nVerse 15:13: Permeating the soil, I support beings by my vital energy, and having become \nthe delicious Soma I nourish all plants. \n\nVerse 15:14: I, having become the Fire of Life, take possession of the bodies of breathing \nthings, and united with the life-breaths, I digest the four kinds of food. \n\nVerse 15:15: And I am seated in the hearts of all, and from Me memory and wisdom and \ntheir absence. And that which is to be known in all the Vedas am I; and I indeed the Veda- \nknower and the author of the Vedanta. \n\nVerse 15:16: There are two Energies in this world, the destructible and the indestructible; \nthe destructible is all beings, the unchanging is called the indestructible. \n\nVerse 15:17: The highest Energy is verily Another, declared as the Supreme Self, He who \npervading all sustaineth the three worlds, the indestructible Lord. \n\nVerse 15:18: Since I excel the destructible, and am more excellent also than the \nindestructible, in the world and in the Veda I am proclaimed the Supreme Spirit. \n\nVerse 15:19: He who undeluded knoweth Me thus as the Supreme Spirit, he, all-knowing, \nworshippeth Me with his whole being, O Bharata. \n\ne Verse 15:20: Thus by Me this most secret teaching hath been told, O sinless one. This \nknown, he hath become illuminated, and hath finished his work, O Bharata.",
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