Chapter 4 · Verse 30

Path of Knowledge and the Disciplines of Action

अपरे नियताहाराः प्राणान्प्राणेषु जुह्वति। सर्वेऽप्येते यज्ञविदो यज्ञक्षपितकल्मषाः

apare niyatāhārāḥ prāṇān prāṇeṣu juhvati sarve py 'ete yajña-vido yajña-kṣapita-kalmaṣāḥ

Word Meanings

apare niyata āhārāḥ prāṇān prāṇeṣu sarve api ete yajñavidaḥ yajña kṣapita kalmaṣāḥ juhvati

Translation

Others, disciplining their diet, offer the life-breaths into the life-breaths. All these are knowers of sacrifice, whose sins are destroyed by sacrifice.

Commentary

अपरे other persons? नियताहाराः of regulated food? प्राणान् lifreaths? प्राणेषु in the lifreaths? जुह्वति sacrifice? सर्वे all? अपि also? एते these? यज्ञविदः knowers of sacrifice? यज्ञक्षपितकल्मषाः whose sins are destroyed by sacrifice.Commentary Niyataharah means persons of regulated or limited food. They take moderate food. By rigid dieting they control the passions and appetites by weakening the functions of the organs of action.Yogis pour the lifreaths as sacrifice in the controlled lifreath. The former becomes merged in the latter.Performance of the above sacrifice leads to the purification of the mind and destruction of sins.