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Bhagavad Gita
Puruṣhottama Yoga (15.2)
Above and below spread its branches, nourished by the gunas. Sense-objects are its buds; and its clustering roots spread downward in the world of men, giving rise to action.
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book II (13)
From this root there grow and ripen the fruits of birth, of the life-span, of all that is tasted in life.
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Human Body in Symbolism (41)
A tree with its roots in the heart rises from the Mirror of the Deity through the Sphere of the Understanding to branch forth in the Sphere of the...
Katha Upanishad
Sixth Vallī (1)
'There is that ancient tree, whose roots grow upward and whose branches grow downward;--that indeed is called the Bright, that is called Brahman,...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 11 (1)
If he were to strike at its stem, it would bleed, but live. If he were to strike at its top, it would bleed, but live. Pervaded by the living Self tha...
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 8: The Buddha Path (4)
Manjusri Replied: “Body is (a) seed of the Tathagata; Ignorance and craving are its (two) seeds; Desire, hate and stupidity its (three) seeds; The...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 3: Of the endless and numberless manifold engendering, [generating,] or Birth of the eternal Nature. The Gates of the great Depth. (9)
The Birth of the eternal Nature is like the [Thoughts or] Senses in Man, as when a [Thought or] Sense is generated by something, and afterwards...
Mundaka Upanishad
First Mundaka, First Khanda (7)
'As the spider sends forth and draws in its thread, as plants grow on the earth, as from every man hairs spring forth on the head and the body, thus...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (55)
Then you taste the bitter quality, which makes the tree moveable or stirring, so that it springeth and grows green and flourisheth, and so getteth...
Asclepius
Section VI (3)
Of all these genera, those [species] which are animal have [many] roots, which stretch from the above below, whereas those which are stationary...
Mundaka Upanishad
First Mundaka, First Khanda (8)
'The Brahman swells by means of brooding (penance); hence is produced matter (food); from matter breath, mind, the true, the worlds (seven), and from...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 4 (6.4.1)
Verily, of created things here earth is the essence; of earth, water; of water, plants; of plants, flowers; of flowers, fruits; of fruits, man...
Mundaka Upanishad
Second Mundaka, First Khanda (9)
Hence come the seas and all the mountains, from him flow the rivers of every kind; hence come all herbs and the juice through which the inner Self...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (98)
For the spirit draweth from the head or bud into the blossoms, and the head or bud is formed according to the kind of all the qualities; the astringen...
Dhammapada
Chapter XXIV: Thirst (340)
The channels run everywhere, the creeper (of passion) stands sprouting; if you see the creeper springing up, cut its root by means of knowledge.
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VII, Khanda 26 (1)
'To him who sees, perceives, and understands this , the spirit (prâna) springs from the Self, hope springs from the Self, memory springs from the...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Flowers, Plants, Fruits, and Trees (18)
The tree has also been accepted as symbolic of the Microcosm, that is, man. According to the esoteric doctrine, man first exists potentially within...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (92)
And then from all the qualities which are in the body, there grows a bud or head, and there is a new body in the bud or head, which is formed or figur...
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (7)
Behold and consider a tree: On the outside it has a hard, gross rind or bark, which is dead, benumbed, and without vegetation—yet not quite dead, but...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 9 (3.9.28)
Then he [i.e. Yajnavalkya] questioned them with these verses: — As a tree of the forest, Just so, surely, is man. His hairs are leaves. His skin the...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 8 (6)
As water is an offshoot, seek after its root, viz. fire. As fire is an offshoot, seek after its root, viz. the True. Yes, all these creatures, O son, ...
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