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Bhagavad Gita Chapter 15 Study - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Roots upwards
      - Branches Downwards
      - Leaves are Vedic Hymns
      - Knower of the tree is the knower of the Vedas
    - - Endless for those engaged in fruitive activities
      - Represents various planetary systems
      - Roots start from Brahmā, the topmost planet
      - Fruits represent results of activities: religion, economic development, sense gratification, and liberation
    - - Understanding Kṛṣṇa
        
        Vedic study leads to understanding Kṛṣṇa
        
        Devotional service means knowing the Vedas
      - Detachment and Devotional Service
        
        Detachment from material activities
        
        Attachment to transcendental service of the Lord
    - - Analytical Study of the Tree
        
        Understanding the tree to cut off attachment
        
        Reflection of the real tree in the spiritual world
        
        Desire as the cause of reflection
      - Breaking Material Attachment
        
        Knowing the process to cut the tree of material existence
        
        Reflection is temporary, the spiritual world is eternal
        
        Cutting off attachment leads to real spiritual tree
    - - Impersonalists' View
        
        Brahmā as the root of the material tree
        
        Division of material world in sāṅkhya philosophy
      - Perverted Reflection
        
        Material world as the reflection of the spiritual world
        
        Prakṛti as external energy, Puruṣa as Supreme Lord
      - Purpose of the Vedas
        
        Cutting down the reflected tree to attain the spiritual tree
        
        Misunderstanding of Vedas as only ritualistic formulas
  - - - Branches
        
        Extend downward and upward
        
        Nourished by the three modes of material nature
        
        Lower Branches
        
        Variegated manifestations of living entities (e.g., humans, animals, horses, cows, dogs, cats)
        
        Upper Branches
        
        Higher forms of living entities (e.g., demigods, Gandharvas, higher species)
      - Twigs
        
        Objects of the senses
        
        Development of different senses and sense objects
        
        Upper Twigs
        
        Sources of senses (ears, nose, eyes)
        
        Lower Twigs
        
        Sound, form, touch (sense objects)
      - Downward Roots
        
        Extend downward
        
        Bound to the fruitive actions of human society
        
        Subsidiary Roots
        
        By-products of suffering and sense enjoyment
        
        Development of attachment and aversion
        
        Tendencies
        
        Toward piety and impiety
        
        Secondary roots spreading in all directions
      - Modes of Material Nature (Like water)
        
        Nourish the tree
        
        Proportional manifestation of different species of life
      - Planetary Systems
        
        Real Root
        
        From Brahmaloka
        
        Other Roots
        
        In Human Society (as Karma is with humans)
        
        Field of activities on Earth
        
        Cycle of virtuous activities and karma renewal
    - - Understanding Material Attachment
        
        Attachment and aversion through sense objects
        
        Piety and impiety as secondary roots
        
        Enjoyment of results in upper planetary systems
        
        Renewal of karma on Earth