As a large tree enveloped with numberless branches and filled with many flowers and fruits, does not know in which part it has flowers and in which it has fruits, similarly the Soul, as modified by birth and other qualities, does not know whence it has come and whither it is to go. There is, however, an inner Soul, which sees every thing.
यथा पुष्पफलोपेतो बहुशाखो महाद्रुमः। आतमनो नाभिजानीते क्व मे पुष्पं क्व मे फलम्॥ एवमात्मा न जानीते क्व गमिष्ये कुतस्त्वहम्। अन्यो ह्यत्रान्तरात्मास्ति यः सर्वमनुपश्यति॥