Commentary by Madhvacarya

The weapon of detachment one should sever ties with everything except the Supreme Lord Krishna and His authorized avatars or divine incarnations and expansions. The Moksa Dharma states: When one surrenders unto the Supreme Lord one does not suffer or grieve. Neither is one born nor does one die. Such a one is verily situated in the brahman. The only one who has been graced by the blessing of the Supreme Lord can be eligible to become qualified to attain this. The description of the means of severing attachment has been given for the sake of an aspirant receiving the Supreme Lord's grace. No other shelter or refuge exists in all creation other than the Supreme Lord Krishna and this fundamental understanding must be realized. Since this material existence is like a horse with an unstable gait it is known as unsteady. That it is immutable is because samsara or the perpetual cycle of birth and death is like a stream and endless until one achieves moksa or liberation from material existence. This liberation is determined by detachment. The firm conviction that the Supreme Lord is transcendental to everything in the physical existence is the knowledge gained from the destruction of this ancient banyan tree. The Vedic aphorism neti neti means it is not this, it is not that clarifies what is unmanifest. Realizing that the Supreme Lord Krishna is separate and distinct from all else is what makes Him clearly superior and paramount. He is the primal Supreme Lord, the only progenitor. All created beings including Brahma, Indra, and all the 300 million devas are nothing but emanations from Him like rays of sunlight from the sun.