Chapter 4 continued...
Verse
22
Yadricchaalaabhasantushto
Dwandwaateeto vimatsarah;
Samah
siddhaavasiddhau cha
Kritwaapi na nibadhyate.
Content
with what comes to him without effort, free from the pairs of opposites and envy,
even minded in success and failure, though acting, he is not bound.
Verse
23
Gatasangasya muktasya
Jnaanaavasthitachetasah;
Yajnaayaacharatah
karma
Samagram pravileeyate.
To
one who is devoid of attachment, who is liberated, whose mind is established in
knowledge, who works for the sake of sacrifice (for the sake of God), the whole
action is dissolved.
Verse
24
Brahmaarpanam brahmahavir
Brahmaagnau brahmanaa
hutam;
Brahmaiva
tena gantavyam Brahmakarmasamaadhinaa.
Brahman
is the oblation; Brahman is the melted butter (ghee); by Brahman is the oblation
poured into the fire of Brahman; Brahman verily shall be reached by him who
always sees Brahman in action.
Verse
25
Daivam evaapare yajnam
Yoginah paryupaasate;
Brahmaagnaavapare
yajnam Yajnenaivopajuhwati.
Some
Yogis perform sacrifice to the gods alone, while others (who have realized the Self)
offer the Self as sacrifice by the Self in the fire of Brahman alone.
Verse
26
Shrotraadeeneendriyaanyanye
Samyamaagnishu juhwati;
Shabdaadeen
vishayaananya
Indriyaagnishu juhwati.
Some
again offer hearing and other senses as sacrifice in the fire of restraint;
others offer sound and various objects of the senses as sacrifice in the fire
of the senses.
Verse
27
Sarvaaneendriya karmaani
Praanakarmaani chaapare;
Aatmasamyamayogaagnau
Juhwati jnaanadeepite.
Others
again sacrifice all the functions of the senses and those of the breath (vital
energy or Prana) in the fire of the Yoga of self-restraint kindled by
knowledge.
Verse
28
Dravyayajnaas tapoyajnaa
Yogayajnaastathaapare;
Swaadhyaayajnaana
yajnaashcha
Yatayah samshitavrataah.
Some
again offer wealth, austerity and Yoga as sacrifice, while the ascetics of self-restraint
and rigid vows offer study of scriptures and knowledge as sacrifice.
Verse
29
Apaane juhwati praanam
Praane’paanam tathaa’pare;
Praanaapaana
gatee ruddhwaa Praanaayaamaparaayanaah.
Others
offer as sacrifice the outgoing breath in the incoming, and the incoming in the
outgoing, restraining the courses of the outgoing and the incoming breaths,
solely absorbed in the restraint of the breath.
Verse
30
Apare niyataahaaraah
Praanaan praaneshu
juhwati;
Sarve’pyete
yajnavido
Yajnakshapita kalmashaah.
Others
who regulate their diet offer life-breaths in life-breaths; all these are
knowers of sacrifice, whose sins are all destroyed by sacrifice.
Verse
31
Yajnashishtaamritabhujo
yaanti
Brahma sanaatanam;
Naayam loko’styayajnasya
Kuto’nyah kurusattama.
Those
who eat the remnants of the sacrifice, which are like nectar, go to the eternal
Brahman. This world is not for the man who does not perform sacrifice; how then
can he have the other, O Arjuna?
Continued...
Love.
