Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya 153

Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya

Chapter-4 Jñāna Vibhāga Yogaḥ

apare niyatāhārāḥ prāṇān prāṇeṣu juhvati | sarve’pyete yajñā-vido yajñā kṣapita kalmaṣāḥ || 30 || 30. Others, with regulated diet, are devoted to the practice of breath-control (prāṇāyāma). All these [yogins] know the meaning of sacrifices and through sacrifices are absolved of their transgressions. Commentary The clause 'regulated diet' applies to everyone engaged in the threefold practice of breath control. All these, according to their liking and capacity are engaged in performing the various kinds of Karma Yoga beginning from the sacrifice of material objects up to breath-control. They know, and are devoted to Yajña comprised of obligatory and periodical rites preceded by the performance of the Five Great Sacrifices (pañca-mahā-yajña) they are absolved of their transgressions (kalmaṣaḥ) only because of this.