Chapter 4: Jñāna Karma Sannyāsa Yoga – Renunciation of Actions through Enlightenment: Verse 30
अपरे नियताहारा: प्राणान्प्राणेषु जुह्वति ।
सर्वेऽप्येते यज्ञविदो यज्ञक्षपितकल्मषा: ॥
apare niyatāhārā: prāṇān-prāṇeṣu juhvati
sarve’py-ete yajña-vido yajña-kṣapita-kalmaṣā: – 4.30
Others, disciplining their food, offer prāṇas into prāṇas (intense activities into reduced activity). All of them know the place and worth of yajña, and have their blemishes consumed by yajña.
Chapter 4: Jñāna Karma Sannyāsa Yoga – Renunciation of Actions through Enlightenment - Verse 30
Ma Gurupriya
Krishna extends the domain of yajnas to fasting and allied disciplines also. There are various kinds and degrees of fasting. Depending upon their intensity and duration, the energy and drive for activity become less and less. Virtually it becomes a sacrifice of food and nourishment, equally of pranic energy. People heartily take to it as a coveted discipline, austerity. Krishna gives the status of yajna to what they do also.
Thus yajna assumes diversity, says Krishna, as all these people recognize its relevance and benefits. By means of yajna, they gain purity and sublimity, which determine the spiritual quality and fulfilment of a person.
What is important is not what one does, but how he does it and what for. The attitude and aim of an act shape its quality and merit. Embrace yajna, enriching, elevating and expanding yourself thereby.
