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Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya
(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)
CHAPTER -4
30. Others, of regulated food, offer the life-breaths in the life-breaths. All of these are knowers of yajña, having their sins consumed by yajñas. Others, of regulated food, whose food is limited in quantity, offer life-breaths, the several kinds of vital air, in the life-breaths themselves. Whatever prāna (vital air) has been controlled, into it they sacrifice all other prānas; these latter become, as it were, merged in the former. All these are knowers of yajñas, having their sins consumed by (one or other of the) yajnas, stated above. Thus performing (any of) the sacrifices stated above, |