SACRED TREES AND RITUALS-SLIDE SHOW

SACRED TREES AND RITUALS-SLIDE SHOW

Meena Devi Dasi: Nice. Very nice. Thank you for the slide show documentary. You have a forte for slide show presentation. As a Westerner these presentations really help me to get some color and flavor for the deep cultural roots in India. And so my appreciation increases. It is from the roots that the tree grows. 

Sudha Pandey: Well said.

Meera Panigrahi: The whole Human kind is one large tree . The roots are the Faith we have the trunk our solidarity, the branches our spirit swelling out, the leaves our individual selves. We taste the fruits of god love.

Meena Devi Dasi: Sometimes the tree grows up and sometimes it grows down........... 

     The Supreme Lord said: There is a banyan tree which has its roots upward and its branches down, and the Vedic hymns are its leaves. One who knows this tree is the knower of the Vedas. (Bg. 15.1) 

Bhaktivedanta Swami: Here the material world is described as a tree whose roots are upwards and branches are below. We have experience of a tree whose roots are upward: if one stands on the bank of a river or any reservoir of water, he can see that the trees reflected in the water are upside down. The branches go downward and the roots upward. Similarly, this material world is a reflection of the spiritual world. The material world is but a shadow of reality. In the shadow there is no reality or substantiality, but from the shadow we can understand that there is substance and reality. In the desert there is no water, but the mirage suggests that there is such a thing as water. In the material world there is no water, there is no happiness, but the real water of actual happiness is there in the spiritual world. 

BHAGAVAD GITA AS IT IS CHAPTER 15 TEXT 1