Sanskrit
न रूपमस्येह तथोपलभ्यते नान्तो न चादिर्न च संप्रतिष्ठा । अश्वत्थमेनं सुविरूढमूलमसङ्गशस्त्रेण दृढेन छित्त्वा ॥
na rūpam asyeha tathopalabhyate nānto na cādir na ca saṃpratiṣṭhā aśvattham enaṃ suvirūḍhamūlam asaṅgaśastreṇa dṛḍhena chittvā
Translation
Nor 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,
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
Having built the tree up across two verses, the text now turns to demolition: no one can trace the tree’s form, beginning, end, or foundation, because as a symbol for beginningless samsara it isn’t the kind of object ordinary perception can bound. The prescribed tool is asaṅga-śastra, “the weapon of non-attachment” — not analysis, not ritual, but detachment wielded like a blade. Note that the sentence is deliberately left hanging here, running on into verse 4’s main clause; the syntax mirrors the content, since cutting the tree is the precondition for the search that follows, not the endpoint itself.