The Seed of The Banyan Tree

The seed of the Banyan tree:
The Banyan tree is and amazing beatiful huge tree, that feeds thousands of animals and its considered
sacred to many cultures around the world , including here in Mexico the indigenous Coras of where i live in
the state of Nayarit where is called Xá pua, it is more well known as the strangler fig, i will publish a very
interesting link about this tree
https://www.rachnakar.com/the-banyan-tree-a-world-of-its-own/
The Roots of the Banyan tree grow from above downwardly, so it presents a paradox to the usual tree. In
the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna mentions that the Banyan tree is a reversal amongst the trees that reflects the
spiritual world within.
In India is called Nyagrodha means which obstruct or which covers. (Ficus bengalensis) or
the most ancient name Vata , wich means surrounds or encompass.
http://www.ccras.nic.in/sites/default/files/viewpdf/jimh/BIIHM_2007/167%20to%20178.pdf
The first time i heard about it was imnetioned by Christopher Wallis translation of the Kaula Sutras:
vaṭa-dhānāvidhāraṇena viśva-vyavahāra-satattvānumānam || 8 || By breaking open the seed of the
banyan tree, we can infer the essential reality of the everyday affairs of the world.
Very similar to commentary on the chummās, by Niṣkriyānanda Nātha, that claims to have received them
in a visionary transmission from Siddhanātha
"The symbol of the manuscript is a central one, yet the recurrent theme is one of “breaking open the
boards” of the manuscript to reveal the transmental experiential reality that exists between the polarities
that the two boards represent.
(See Tantra Illuminated, pp. 268f.)
The Kaula-sūtras is an unpublished Tantrik text composed in Sanskrit by Śitikaṇṭha of the of the Kaula
āmnāya (lineage-based tradition) known as the Krama the same lineage of the chummās
I became intrigued... by this action, we can come to the realization of our everyday true nature?
Then yesterday i heard Lakshmanjoo audio mentioning about the seed of the fig tree in his commentary on
the Parāprāveśikā :
"The seed of that fig tree is very little, And you see in that tiny small seed, particle of seed, the śakti-rūpaḥ
mahā drumaḥ, that strenght of producing such a big tree is there.
In the same way, in the sauh bija - parabija - this whole universe of the thirty-six elements is residing in
that bija , in the sauh mantra.
In this way parābhaṭṭārikārūpe hṛdayabīje, this is the bija [seed] of the heart, this is the heart mantra. Heart
mantra means is the essence of all mantras.
"Just as (yathā) a large (mahā) tree (drumaḥ) lies (sthaḥ) potentially (śakti-rūpaḥ) in the seed (bīja) of the
banyan tree (nyagrodha), so (tathā) this (etad) world (jagat), (both) animate (cara) (and) inanimate
(acaram), lies (stham) in the Seed (bīja) of the Heart (hṛdaya... iti)."||
These Teachings are based on the Parāprāveśikā of Kśemarāja, the chief disciple of Abhinavagupta. The
word parāprāveśikā means “that which causes you to enter the Supreme,” that which gives you a push into
that highest reality.
The most supreme and venerated mantra (parābhaṭṭārikārūpe)is more important than the AHAUM mantra!,
this whole universe of 36 elements (tatvas) is residing in it.
https://www.manblunder.com/articlesview/parabija-Sauh-Mantra
Then Mark Dyczkowski, mention today in his Satsang "there is a teaching in the Upanishad that use this
same metaphor with Banyan seed.
In the Chāndogya Upaniṣad one of the oldest vedic manuscript
Chapter Two: Uddalaka's Teaching Concerning the
Oneness of the Self
Section 12: The Indwelling Spirit (Continued)—
Illustration of the Banyan Tree and Its Seed
3. Sa ya esho'nima, aitad atmyam idam sarvam, tat satyam, sa atma, tat-tvam-asi, svetaketo, iti; bhuya eva
ma, bhagavan, vijnapayatv-iti; tatha, saumya, iti hovacha.
That is the Being, the essence of the vast tree of this universe. So this Being, the essence of this whole
universe, is the Self of the whole universe. This little jelly-like substance inside the little seed is the Self of
this whole tree. It is the Atman of this banyan, because that has become all this, and outside it the tree does
not exist. So it is the being of this tree. Even so is the Being of the whole universe including one's own self.
"Tat-tvam-asi-you are that,"
Then following the same thread it brought me back to Kśemarāja and Christopher Wallis teachings on the
Recognition sutra #4
Just as God has the whole universe for his body, in the same way,
चितिसंकोचात्मा चेतनोऽपि
मयःश्व|| ४
संकुचितविवमयः
The individual conscious being, as a contraction of
universal Awareness, embodies the entire universe in a
contracted form.
In the same way that Divine Consciousness has the entire universe for its body, the individual
conscious being (cetana) too, i.e. the knowing subject, as a contraction of universal Awareness (citi), is
a microcosm of the whole universe, like the seed of a banyan tree [encodes the pattern of the whole
tree].
https://hareesh.org/blog/2016/4/22/you-are-the-universe-recognition-sutra-4
There is a less known text that is called the Tantravaṭadhānikā (The Seed of Tantra). thats seems to be a
brief sumary of the Tantraloka, attribuited to Abhinavagupta .
1. praṇamya gurum īśānaṃ sattantravaṭadhānikā mayābhinavaguptena svaśaktyuddīptaye kṛtā

2. After bowing to the teacher, the Lord, the Seed of the Banyan Tree of Tantra, is composed by me
Abhinavagupta, to excite my own powers.
In this text Abhinavagupta referes to Lord Siva as sattantravaṭadhānikā (the Seed of the Banyan Tree of
Tantra)
So the Banyan tree seed is a beautiful simil of the reality between the polarities and by breaking it
we can Access our true nature, it represents the sauh mantra that includes the 36 tattvas, all the
elements, our senses, organs and the matrika, with all the potential of creation, the heart mantra, the
center of our being , the essence of all mantras: all the potential of manifestation, Lord Siva, the self
of all the universe, the entire universe in a contracted form, the center of our self , our own true
nature, the seed of the universe .

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