Twofold is the animal creation in this world, the divine and the demoniacal. 16:6
Trivia: What are the eight things that Krishna is composed of?
15:1-3
1The Blessed Lord said: With roots above, branches below, the Asvattha is said to be indestructible; the leaves of it are hymns; he who knoweth it is a Veda-knower.
2Downwards and upwards spread the branches of it, nourished by the qualities; the objects of the senses its buds; and its roots grow downwards, the bonds of action in the world of men.
Krishna said,
The Asvattha (sacred fig tree) [1], with its roots above and its branches below, is indestructible.
If you know it, you're a Veda-knower.
3Nor here may be acquired knowledge of its form, nor its end, nor its origin, nor its rooting-place; this strongly rooted Asvattha having been cut down by the unswerving weapon of non-attachment,
No one knows its form, end, origin, or rooting place.
15:4-11
4That path beyond may be sought, treading which there is no return. I go indeed to that Primal Man, whence the ancient energy forth-streamed.
I'm going to the Primal Man,
5Without pride and delusion, victorious over the vice of attachment, dwelling constantly in the Self, desire pacified, liberated from the pairs of opposites known as pleasure and pain, they tread, undeluded, that indestructible path.
6Nor doth the sun lighten there, nor moon, nor fire; having gone thither they return not; that is My supreme abode.
where the sun and the moon don't shine,
and from which you can never return.
7A portion of Mine own Self, transformed in the world of life into an immortal Spirit, draweth round itself the senses of which the mind is the sixth, veiled in matter.
8When the Lord acquireth a body and when He abandoneth it, He seizeth these and goeth with them, as the wind takes fragrances from their retreats.
9Enshrined in the ear, the eye, the touch, the taste and the smell, and in the mind also, He enjoyeth the objects of the senses.
10The deluded do not perceive (Him) when He departeth or stayeth or enjoyeth, swayed by the qualities; the wisdom-eyed perceive.
The deluded don't perceive Him, but the wisdom-eyed people do.
11Yogîs also, struggling, perceive Him, established in the Self; but though struggling, the unintelligent perceive Him not, their selves untrained.
Yogîs also perceive Him, but unintelligent people don't.
15:12-14
12That splendour issuing from the sun that enlighteneth the whole world, that which is in the moon and in fire, that splendour know as from Me.
I am the splendor of the sun and the moon.
13Permeating the soil, I support beings by my vital energy, and having become the delicious Soma I nourish all plants.
I also permeate the soil, nourishing all plants.
14I, having become the Fire of Life, take possession of the bodies of breathing things, and united with the life-breaths, I digest the four kinds of food.
I digest the four kinds of foods. [2]
15:15-20
15And I am seated in the hearts of all, and from Me memory and wisdom and their absence. And that which is to be known in all the Vedas am I; andI indeed the Veda-knower and the author of the Vedanta.
I sit in everyone's heart.
I'm the Veda-knower and the author of the Vedanta.
16There are two Energies in this world, the destructible and the indestructible; the destructible is all beings, the unchanging is called the indestructible.
17The highest Energy is verily Another, declared as the Supreme Self, He who, pervading all, sustaineth the three worlds, the indestructible Lord.
18Since I excel the destructible, and am more excellent also than the indestructible, in the world and in the Veda I am proclaimed the Supreme Spirit.
I am the supreme spirit.
19He who undeluded knoweth Me thus as the Supreme Spirit, he, all-knowing, worshippeth Me with his whole being, O Bhârata.
The undeluded worship me with his whole being.
20Thus by Me this most secret teaching hath been told O sinless one. This known, he hath become illuminated and hath finished his work, O Bhârata.
So I've told you, O sinless one, the secret teaching.
The Asvattha (Sacred Fig Tree, Bodhi Tree, Ficus religiosa) is important to three major religions: Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism.
Here, the Gita tell us that know one knows anything about it, but that those who know about it are Veda-knowers. (So I guess Wikipedia is Veda-knower.)
