Chapter 3: Karma Yoga – Transforming All Activities into Yoga: Verse 14
अन्नाद्भवन्ति भूतानि पर्जन्यादन्नसम्भव: ।
यज्ञाद्भवति पर्जन्यो यज्ञ: कर्मसमुद्भव: ।।
annād-bhavanti bhūtāni parjanyād-anna-sambhava:
yajñād-bhavati parjanyo yajña: karma-samudbhava: – 3.14
All beings grow from anna, food. Food grains grow from rain. Rains are an outcome of yajña. And yajña results from action.
Chapter 3: Karma Yoga – Transforming All Activities into Yoga - Verse 14
Swami Nirviseshananda Tirtha
The constitution and preservation of the world we live in are certainly governed by infallible laws and sequences, which Krishna describes emphatically.
Living beings grow from food, anna. Our body is solely an outcome of food and nourishment. Food can grow only from favourable rainfall. Krishna states that rainfall is related to the yajña-coordinate of human life.
Yajña represents the human values every generation has to adhere to. Yajña is the Providential link between the formation of clouds, and their shedding rain in appropriate measures. Societal and spiritual feelings people foster determine the yajña-coordinate and the consequent rainfall.
Though regular and even an inevitable part of Nature, rainfall is always unpredictable. Krishna says that the performance of yajña can make clouds friendly. Remember, conducting all activities without delusional clinging is the essence of all yajñas. Do not lack in this.
