अधश्चोर्ध्वं प्रसृतास्तस्य शाखा गुणप्रवृद्धा विषयप्रवालाः ।
अधश्च मूलान्यनुसन्ततानि कर्मानुबन्धीनि मनुष्यलोके ॥
अधश्च मूलान्यनुसन्ततानि कर्मानुबन्धीनि मनुष्यलोके ॥
हिन्दी अनुवाद
उस संसारवृक्षकी गुणोंसत्त्व, रज और तम के द्वारा बढ़ी हुई तथा विषयरूप कोंपलोंवाली शाखाएँ नीचे, मध्यमें और ऊपर सब जगह फैली हुई हैं । मनुष्यलोकमें कर्मोंके अनुसार बाँधनेवाले मूल भी नीचे और ऊपर सभी लोकोंमें व्याप्त हो रहे हैं ॥
English
Its branches spread below, above, and across. They are nourished by the three qualities, with sense-pleasures as their shoots. In the human world, action-bound roots extend everywhere, tying beings to results.
श्लोक का अर्थ
The world-tree spreads everywhere, fed by the three qualities and by desire for sense-pleasures. Its roots reach through human life through action and its consequences.
संदर्भ और टिप्पणी
Krishna has just described the upside-down world-tree of existence to Arjuna on the battlefield. Now he shows how it grows: the three qualities feed its branches, sense-pleasures keep them alive, and action binds the roots through human life.
आज के संदर्भ में
You keep checking one message, then another, then another. Each small craving feeds the whole pattern until it feels like the pattern is running you.
सार
You can feel how deeply life is entangled when desire and action keep feeding the same tree.
शब्दार्थ
अधः (below) / च (and) / ऊर्ध्वं (above) / प्रसृताः (spread out) / तस्य (of that) / शाखाः (branches) / गुणप्रवृद्धाः (grown by the qualities) / विषयप्रवालाः (with sense-objects as shoots) / अधः (below) / च (and) / मूलानि (roots) / अनुसन्ततानि (extended everywhere) / कर्मानुबन्धीनि (bound by action) / मनुष्यलोके (in the human world)
यह श्लोक भगवद् गीता अध्याय 15: पुरुषोत्तम योग — पुरुषोत्तम का योग का भाग है, जिसमें कुल 20 श्लोक हैं।
संबंधित विषय: gunas (47 श्लोक)