Bhagavad Gita 15.3
न रूपमस्येह तथोपलभ्यते नान्तो न चादिर्न च सम्प्रतिष्ठा । अश्वत्थमेनं सुविरूढमूलमसङ्गशस्त्रेण दृढेन छित्त्वा ॥
na rūpam asyeha tathopalabhyate nānto na cādir na ca sampratiṣṭhā | aśvattham enaṁ suvirūḍha-mūlam asaṅga-śastreṇa dṛḍhena chittvā ||
Translation
Its form is not perceived here as such, nor its end, nor beginning, nor foundation. Having felled this ashvattha, well-grown of root, with the firm weapon of detachment,
Reflection
Where could one act of non-clinging today loosen a long-buried root?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Fifteen
Tree refuses to hold still long enough to be photographed. No edges visible from inside it, no first root, no final canopy. So measuring scripture against everyday perception keeps failing on both sides. Krishna stops the inventory and hands a tool. Weapon is asanga, non-clinging, sharpened by practice into something more like a sword than a mood. Chopping is not violence here. Chopping is the precise refusal to let the next sticky vishaya glue another root in. Tree's strength is exactly its rootedness in our wanting. Cutting wanting at the source is how the form finally becomes visible at all.