Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand 795

Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji

CHAPTER 17 The Yog of Threefold Faith अफलाकाङ्क्षिभिर्यज्ञो विधिदृष्टो य इज्यते। यष्टव्यमेवेति मन:समाधाय स सात्त्विक: ॥11॥ [ “Yagya that has scriptural sanction and the performance of which is an obligation, is fitting and auspicious when it is practised by persons with intent minds who aspire to no reward.” ] The Geeta approves of such yagya. It was in Chapter 3 that Krishn First named yagya. “Since the conduct of yagya is the only action,” he said, “and all other business in which people are engaged are only forms of worldly bondage, O son of Kunti, be unattached and do your duty to the Supreme Spirit well.” In Chapter 4, then, he went on to explain the character of the unique action called yagya: that it is an act of sacrifice in which the practicer of yog offers the incoming and outgoing breath (pran and apan) to each other and in which the two vital winds are regulated by offering them as oblation to the fire of self-restraint to achieve serenity of breath. There were thus enumerated fourteen steps of yagya, which are all but varying stages of the same action that bridges the gulf between individual Soul and the Supreme Spirit. In brief, yagya has been imaged as that unique process of contemplation which leads the worshipper to the eternal, immutable God and ultimately effects his dissolution in that Supreme Being. Krishn again points to the same holy injunction when he lays it down that the yagya that is decreed by scripture and the performance of which is a duty and which restrains the mind, is the yagya of excellence when it is undertaken by persons who do not desire any fruit of their endeavours.