Brahma Purana — The Path of Liberation: Self-Knowledge, Sense-Restraint, and Crossing the River of Worldly Flow, Shloka 22

Devanagari script

यथा पुष्पफलोपेतो बहुशाखो महाद्रुमः आत्मनो नाभिजानीते क्व मे पुष्पं क्व मे फलम् //

Translation

ಈ ಅಧ್ಯಾಯದ ಇಪ್ಪತ್ತೆರಡನೇ ಶ್ಲೋಕ—ಮೂಲ ಶ್ಲೋಕ ಲಭ್ಯವಿಲ್ಲ; ಆದ್ದರಿಂದ ನಿಖರಾರ್ಥಾನುವಾದ ಸಾಧ್ಯವಿಲ್ಲ।

Speaker

• Unspecified teacher/sage using an analogy to explain Self and inner witness