Bhagavadgita -Radhakrishnan 137

The Bhagavadgita -S. Radhakrishnan

CHAPTER 4 The Way of Knowledge Sacrifice and Its Symbolic Value 23. gatasangasya muktasya jnanavasthitacetasah yajnayã 'carataz karma samagrarh pravilly at (23) The work of a man whose attachments are sundered, who is liberated, whose mind is firmly founded in wisdom, who does work as a sacrifice, is dissolved entirely. 24 brahma 'rpanam brahmazd hagir brahinagnau brahmazã hutam brahmai 'vac tea gantavyaii brahmakarmasamãdhinã (24) For him the act of offering is God, the oblation is God. By God is it offered into the fire of God. God is that which is to be attained by him who realizes God in his works. The Vedic yajnayã is here interpreted in a larger, spiritual way, Though the performer of yajna does work, he is not bound by it, for his earth life is brooded over by the sense of eternity. 25. dazvam eva 'pare yajfiam yoginah paryupdsate brahmãgnãv aware yajnam yajnenai 'von ' ajuhvati (25) Some yogis offer sacrifices to the gods while others offer sacrifice by the sacrifice itself into the fire of the Supreme. 8. interprets yajnam in the second half of the verse as Batman. "Others offer the self as self into the fire of Brahman. " Those who conceive the Divine In various forms seek favours from them by performing the consecrated rites of action, while others offer all works to the Divine itself.