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अथ पंचदशोऽध्यायः

पुरुषोत्तमयोगः

The Yoga of the Supreme Person (Purushottama)

Puruṣottama-yoga

Cut the downward roots of desire with the sword of detachment, and find above the world-tree the Supreme Person, who is the light of sun and moon and the flame of life in every heart. — The Delight of Krishna

The soul enters in
guṇātīta — the soul free above the modes, on the verge of a greater mystery
and is led towards
puruṣottama — the Supreme who exceeds the mutable and the immutable, adored with the whole being
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Summary of chapter 15

The Three Purushas - The entire doctrine of the Gita converges. on all its lines and through all the flexibility of its turns. towards one central thought -the idea of a triple consciousness, three and yet one. present in the whole scale of existence. All that is now brought together into one lows of grouping vision.

This chapter Opens with a description of cosmic existence in the Vedantic image of the ashwattha tree.

Chapter 15 illustration, titled पुरुषोत्तमयोगः
Illustration · Sushanto Nath, Sri Aurobindo Society

Chapter outline

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  1. 15·1–6The Cosmic Tree, liberation and the supreme Status of the Divine.
  2. 15·7–15The individual soul as the eternal portion of the Divine; the world as manifestation of the dynamic Divine.
  3. 15·16–19The three Purushas; knowledge and love of the Purushottama.
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The verses

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Śrī Bhagavān uvācaश्रीभगवानुवाच

  1. 15·16द्वाविमौ पुरुषौ लोके क्षरश्चाक्षर एव च । क्षरः सर्वाणि भूतानि कूटस्थोऽक्षर उच्यते ॥ १६ ॥dvāvimau puruṣau loke kṣaraścākṣara eva ca, kṣaraḥ sarvāṇi bhūtāni kūṭastho’kṣara ucyate.There are two Purushas (spiritual beings) in this world, the immutable (and impersonal) and the mutable (and…
  2. 15·17, a key verseउत्तमः पुरुषस्त्वन्यः परमात्मेत्युदाहृतः । यो लोकत्रयमाविश्य बिभर्त्यव्यय ईश्वरः ॥ १७ ॥uttamaḥ puruṣastvanyaḥ paramātmetyudāhṛtaḥ, yo lokatrayamāviśya bibhartyavyaya īśvaraḥ.But other than these two is that highest spirit called the supreme Self, who enters the three worlds and…
  3. 15·18, a key verseयस्मात्क्षरमतीतोऽहमक्षरादपि चोत्तमः । अतोऽस्मि लोके वेदे च प्रथितः पुरुषोत्तमः ॥ १८ ॥yasmātkṣaramatīto’hamakṣarādapi cottamaḥ, ato’smi loke vede ca prathitaḥ puruṣottamaḥ.Since I am beyond the mutable and am greater and higher even than the immutable, in the world and the Veda I…
  4. 15·19, a key verseयो मामेवमसम्मूढो जानाति पुरुषोत्तमम् । स सर्वविद्भजति मां सर्वभावेन भारत ॥ १९ ॥yo māmevamasammūḍho jānāti puruṣottamam, sa sarvavidbhajati māṁ sarvabhāvena bhārata.He who undeluded thus has knowledge of Me as the Purushottama, adores Me (has bhakti for Me) with…
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End of the chapter

ॐ तत्सदिति श्रीमद्भगवद्गीतासूपनिषत्सुब्रह्मविद्यायां योगशास्त्रे श्रीकृष्णार्जुनसंवादेपुरुषोत्तमयोगो नाम पञ्चदशोऽध्यायः ॥ १५॥

om tatsaditi śrīmadbhagavadgītāsūpaniṣatsubrahmavidyāyāṁ yogaśāstre śrīkṛṣṇārjunasaṁvādepuruṣottamayogo nāma pañcadaśo’dhyāyaḥ

Thus, in the Upanishad sung by the Lord, the science of Brahman, the scripture of Yoga, the dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjuna, ends the fifteenth chapter entitled “The Yoga of the Supreme Personality”

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