Chapter 4 · Knowledge and Renunciation of Action

श्रीकृष्णŚrī Kṛṣṇa speaks

Text 4.30

अपाने जुह्वति प्राणं प्राणेऽपानं तथापरे प्राणापानगती रुद्ध्वा प्राणायामपरायणा: अपरे नियताहारा: प्राणान्प्राणेषु जुह्वति सर्वेऽप्येते यज्ञविदो यज्ञक्षपितकल्मषा:

apāne juhvati prāṇaṁ prāṇe ’pānaṁ tathāpare prāṇāpāna-gatī ruddhvā prāṇāyāma-parāyaṇāḥ apare niyatāhārāḥ prāṇān prāṇeṣhu juhvati sarve ’pyete yajña-vido yajña-kṣhapita-kalmaṣhāḥ

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Word-for-Word Śabda-Artha (25 words)

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Others of regulated diet offer the life-breaths into the life-energy itself — and Krishna closes the catalogue by saying all of these are knowers of sacrifice, cleansed of impurity by it. The variety is affirmed rather than ranked.

✨ Devotional Takeaway:The variety is affirmed rather than ranked — all of these are called knowers of sacrifice.