Having the unmanifest for the seed of its origin, with the understanding for its trunk, with the great principle of egoism for its collection of boughs, with the senses for the cavities of its little sprouts, with the (five) great elements for its large branches, the objects of the senses for this smaller branches, with leaves that are ever present, with flowers that always embellish it, and with fruits both agreeable and disagreeable always produced, is the eternal tree of Brahma which forins the support of all creatures. Cutting and piercing that tree with knowledge of truth as the sword, the wise man, abandoning the fetters which are made of attachment and which cause birth, decrepitude, and death, and freeing himself from mineness and egoism, forsooth, becomes liberated.