Chapter 18: Moksha-sannyasa-yoga:: Verse 70
अध्येष्यते च य इमं धर्म्यं संवादमावयो: ।
ज्ञानयज्ञेन तेनाहमिष्ट: स्यामिति मे मति: ॥
adhyeṣyate ca ya imaṃ dharmyaṃ saṃvādam-āvayo:
jñāna-yajñena tenāham-iṣṭa: syām-iti me mati: – 18.70
He who will study faithfully this dharmic (righteous) dialogue of ours, by him I shall be worshipped with the oblation (offering) of knowledge, Jñāna-yajña. This is My considered view.
Chapter 18: Moksha-sannyasa-yoga: - Verse 70
Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
Krishna now speaks about the one who studies the Gita message faithfully, with a view to absorbing and pursuing it with austere resolve. Such a one, he says, performs jnana-yajna, knowledge-sacrifice, which makes him dear to Krishna.
The sacrifice wherein oblations of materials are made into blazing fire, reciting divine mantras, is the usual sacramental Vedic ritual. As against this, knowledge sacrifice (jnana-yajna) consists of reading or listening to spiritual dissertations bringing to light the intricacies of realizing the imperishable Presence within one’s own body.
Krishna has already explained that knowledge-sacrifice, jnana-yajna, is greater than material sacrifices (4.33). All actions, secular or divine, have their finale and fulfilment in spiritual wisdom alone. ‘Brahmavid-āpnoti param’ is the last word of Vedic Upanishads. The knower of Brahman attains the supreme object of life.
