Chapter 3: Karma Yoga – Transforming All Activities into Yoga: Verse 11
देवान्भावयतानेन ते देवा भावयन्तु व:
परस्परं भावयन्त: श्रेय: परमवाप्स्यथ ।।
devān-bhāvayatānena te devā bhāvayantu va:
parasparaṃ bhāvayanta: śreya: param-avāpsyatha – 3.11
By this (yajña), do you please and propitiate the higher powers, on whom the world rests. Then they will also foster you. Thus promoting and propitiating each other, attain the supreme good, felicity.
Chapter 3: Karma Yoga – Transforming All Activities into Yoga - Verse 11
Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha
By any reckoning, our earth was formed out of the higher entities, like sun. Compared to the terrestrial factors, these higher ones become celestial powers. Whatever is faithfully done to register gratitude to them becomes Yajña.
Yajña has the aim of pleasing the higher entities, who, when pleased, will shower their bounties for your welfare and safety. The resultant mutuality elevates human life in every way. It imbues a unique dimension, making humans better, happier and nobler. Indians excelled in blending their economic advancement with spiritual benediction, a distinction that has made them strong, sustained and indefatigable.
As is societal mutuality, so is this higher one, involving the higher powers and resources, on which life on earth depends greatly, points Krishna.
