Chapter 4 • Verse 30

Jnana Karma Sanyasa Yoga

The Yoga of Knowledge and Renunciation

Sanskrit Verse

Apare niyataharah prana-yajnesu juhvati, sarve 'py ete yajna-vido yajna-kshapita-kalmashah

Translation & Meaning

Others, who regulate their eating, offer their life force into the life force as sacrifice. All of these knowers of sacrifice have their impurities cleansed away by sacrifice.

Key Teachings

  • Regulated diet is a spiritual discipline and form of sacrifice
  • All genuine forms of sacrifice purify the practitioner
  • Knowledge of yajna in any form cleanses karmic impurities

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