Bhagvad Gita Rahasya or Karmayoga Shastra VOL 02

SR No.: 011090
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bhalchandra S Sukhtankar
Publisher: R B Tilak Puna
Publication Year: 1936
Total Pages: 767
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 74 MB

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GITA-RAHASYA OR KARMA-YOGA
अपरे नियताहारा: प्राणान्प्राणेषु जुह्वति । सर्वेऽप्येते यज्ञविदो यज्ञक्षपितकल्मषाः ॥ ३० ॥ यज्ञशिष्टामृतभुजो यान्ति ब्रह्म सनातनम् । नायं लोकोऽस्त्ययज्ञस्य कुतोऽन्य: कुरुसत्तम ॥ ३१ ॥
(Prasna. 3-5 and Maitryu. 2-6). According to the above stanza, the breath which is controlled is said to be 'sacrificed' into the other kinds of breath.]
(30) Others still moderating their food, sacrifice the prana (vital airs) into prana itself. All these being sin-diminished as a result of sacrifice, and (being) well-versed in sacrifice, (31) and partaking of the amṛta (food), which remains over after the sacrifice, attain the eternal Brahman. The nonperformers of sacrifice have not (success even in) this world; how then, O Kuruśrestha, (can they obtain) the next world?
[In short, although the performance of Yajñas is the duty of every human being, according to the directions of the Vedas, yet, it is not that this Yajña is only of one kind. Whether one performs Prānāyāma, or religious austerities, or the reading of the Vedas, or the Agnistoma-yajña, or the Pasu-yajña (sacrificing animals), or throws til, rice, or clarified butter into the fire, or performs worship. or performs the five dom estic sacrifices (grha-yajña), such as, naivedya (food offered to household gods), vais vadeva (food offered into the fire), etc., if one has destroyed the Attachment for the Fruit of Action, all these become Yajñas in the wider meaning of the word; and then, all the doctrines of the Mimämsä school relating to the partaking of what remains after the performance of the Yajña, become applicable to each of them. The first of these rules is that 'no Action performed for the purpose of a Yajña has a binding effect'; and that rule has been mentioned above in the 23rd stanza (See commentary on Gi. 3. 9). The second rule is, that every householder should partake of food in the company of his wife, after he has performed the five principal sacrifices, and given food to guests, beggars etc., and that when a person lives in this manner, the house