In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna speaks about an upside down tree , its roots upwards, and branches down. It’s an upside down tree because it’s a reflected tree . If you travel to a great lake surrounded by trees on a clear and quiet day , you can easily see such upside down trees within the reflection of the water .The idea in the Vedas is that the origins of the “Vedic tree”  lie within the spiritual realms . Its roots are connected to the beginnings of a spiritual plane , but the branches reach into the material universal energies.  The further we reach ” up ”  to the outer branches of the upside down tree , the further we have strayed away from the originator of the tree , and thus forgetfulness increases of the real purposes of life .However, the further we climb ” down ” the tree, towards its roots , the closer we come towards the truth of the tree and learn of its purpose. Ultimately , the originator of the tree and the leaves and branches of the tree are all the  parts of the Vedas , and the Vedas  in totality stems from Lord  Visnu. The eighteen puranas consist of the connections within both  goodness,  passion, and ignorance.  So , it behoves us all , and it’s in our best interests , to climb down the tree , and towards the roots ,  and bit by bit approach the modes of  goodness  ,from the more passionate and even in one sense ignorant very outer branches . Ultimately , pure goodness and the trancendental connections with Krishna and family,  friends, and lovers are achieved by moving in the right directions.

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