The Gita according to Gandhi 251

The Gita according to Gandhi -Mahadev Desai

DISCOURCE 4 The reference here is to the three kinds of practices of the control of vital energy - puraka, rechaka, and kumbhaka. 30. Yet others, abstemious in food, sacrifice one form of vital energy in another. All these know what sacrifice is and purge themselves of all impurities by sacrifice. 31. Those who partake of the residue of sacrifice - called amrita (ambrosia) - attain to everlasting Brahman. Even this world is not for a non-sacrificer; how then the next, O Kurusattama? 32. Even so various sacrifices have been described in the Vedas; know them all to proceed from action; knowing this thou shalt be released. Action here means mental, physical and spiritual action. No sacrifice is possible without this triple action and no salvation without sacrifice. To know this and to put the knowledge into practice is to know the secret of sacrifice.