A Constructive Survey of Upanishadic Philosophy c7.15

c7.15

11. In one important respect, however, the Bhagavadgītā takes a position almost antagonistic to the position advanced in the Upanishads. In the Kaṭhopanishad, we have the description of "the eternal Aśvattha tree with its root upwards and branches downwards, which is the pure immortal Brahman, in which all these worlds are situated, and beyond which there is nothing else" (S. 16). In this passage we are