1 Gita Sloka Every Day - Chapter 15 - Purushottama Yoga - Sloka 3

The entire content of this mail is from Swami Adidevananda's translation of Ramanuja's  Gita  Bhashya and Swami Chidbhavananda's Bhagavad Gita, both published by Ramakrishna Mission

Is Bhakti the only means to go beyond the gunas? The elucidation comes :

Cut the Tree to Get Moksha 3-4

1 Gita Sloka  Every Day - Chapter 15 - Purushottama Yoga - Sloka 3

Na rupam asya iha tatha upalabhyate na antah na cha adih na cha sampratishtha I

Ashwattham enam suvi roodha moolam asanga shastrena drudhena chittva II sloka 3

न रूपं अस्य इह तथा उपलभ्यते न अन्तः न च आदिः न च संप्रतिष्ठ I 

अश्वत्थाम एनं सुवि रूढ मूलं असङ्ग शस्त्रेण दृढेण छित्त्वा II श्लोक 3 

Its form is not perceived here as such, neither its end nor its origin, nor its existence. Having cut this form rooted Aswattha with the strong axe of non-attachment.

This Aswattha tree of mundane existence has no stability whatsoever. It is ever in a state of flux. It changes its patterns more quickly than we are able to comprehend. Its origin is beyond the ken of the man; all the same, its end can be predicted. The phenomenon vanishes to the one having brahma jnana. But it continues to exist for all the others who are still in ignorance. Can the ordinary man posit anything about it? It is partially determinant; beyond a limit it is unknown and unknowable.

However firm rooted a tree maybe, it can be felled with an axe. Non-attachment is the axe to cut down the tree of samsara. The sharper this weapon, the quicker is the result obtained. Vairagya or complete dispassion is the benign outcome of non-attachment. It is a criterion for being blessed with the spiritual eye. The spectacle of the universe undergoes a dramatic change when the cognition of the mind gives place to the intuition of the super mind. This is the allegorical meaning of cutting asunder the firm rooted Aswattha tree.

The silk worm gets encaged in the cocoon spun by itself.  Similarly, the worldly man gets entangled in the meshes of his own desires. But when the silk worm develops into a butterfly, it breaks open its nest and comes out to enjoy the light  and air outside.  Similarly when the man in bondage cuts asunder his attachment, he is able to behold the Brahman.  

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa