The Supreme Person — Purushottama Yoga

Chapter 15 of Bhagavad Gita by Vyasa

Krishna said: There is a fig-tree, known in ages old, With roots above and boughs beneath, whose leaves Are Vedic hymns; and he who knoweth this Is Veda-knower. Downward and upward spread Its boughs, fed by the Qualities; its buds Are sense-objects; and those roots that grow Downward in this world of men are bound By action's chains. None here can trace its form, Nor find its end, nor its beginning guess.

Let the wise man hew this Ashvattha down With that strong sword of unconcern, and seek That place from whence, once having reached, there is No coming back; and say: "I fly to Him, The Primal One, from whom the ancient streams Of Power and Life have flowed." Free from pride And self-delusion, conquerors of the ill Of clinging attachment, dwelling constantly In the Self Supreme, from passions freed, Loosed from the bonds of pleasure and of pain, Unblinded, mounting to that changeless realm — They reach that place which is My seat supreme.

Neither the sun, nor moon, nor fire gives light In that place where, having once arrived, They come not back to birth again. It is My highest dwelling. Into the world of life A ray of Mine own Self, made into life, Draweth to it the five fine senses — mind The sixth — which dwell in Nature's realm. When this High Lord doth take a body, or put off A body, it gathereth these and goeth forth As the wind gathers scents upon its way.